Ludwig von Mises Quotes

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority.

When, in a democratic society, policies don’t go their way, people tend to blame it on a small group of other people who they believe have more influence.

We’ve gone down the road of multiculturalism, which ostensibly says that all minorities have equal status to the majority, The result has been that we have handed minorities a stick with which to beat the majority.

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

I've been taught that human nature is such that the place of privilege most often and most naturally leads to a sense of entitlement. The notion that I deserve to be treated as special because I'm privileged. The truth is, privilege should never lead to entitlement.

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

But I think what Liam said just kind of hit it spot on, that the people in the capital are brainwashed and such a disconnect with what's actually happening. They don't realize what if it was their kids that were being put into the games? They just don't have the mindset to have that kind of compassion for people.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.