Ludwig von Mises: "Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people." - Economic Policy
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| Ludwig von Mises | We may fully endorse the religious and ethical precepts that declare it to be mans duty to assist his unlucky brethren whom nature has doomed. But the recognition of this duty does not answer the question concerning what methods should be resorted to for its performance. | Human Action | p. 835; p. 839 | Charity |
| Ludwig von Mises | No civilized community has callously allowed the incapacitated to perish. But the substitution of a legally enforceable claim to support or sustenance for charitable relief does not seem to agree with human nature as it is... The discretion of bureaucrats is substituted for the discretion of people whom an inner voice drives to acts of charity. | Human Action | pp. 835-36; pp. 839-40 | Charity |