Ludwig von Mises: "Monetary calculation and cost accounting constitute the most important intellectual tool of the capitalist entrepreneur, and it was no one less than Goethe who pronounced the system of double-entry bookkeeping one of the finest inventions of the human mind." - Liberalism
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| Ludwig von Mises | Since the third century Christianity has always served simultaneously those who supported the social order and those who wished to overthrow it. . . . It is the same today: Christianity fights both for and against Socialism. | Socialism | p. 378 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | It was not the Syllabus of Pope Pius IX that paved the way for the return of intolerance and the persecution of dissenters. It was the writings of the socialists. | Theory and History | p. 68 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Christian Socialism is none the less Socialism. | Socialism | p. 382 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Christianity has acquiesced in slavery and polygamy, has practically canonized war, has, in the name of the Lord, burnt heretics and devastated countries. | Socialism | pp. 397-98 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Virtually all the Christian churches and sects have espoused the principles of socialism and interventionism. | Omnipotent Government | p. 120 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Protestantism is no more a safeguard of freedom than Catholicism. The ideal of liberalism is the complete separation of church and state, and tolerance--without any regard to differences among the churches. | Omnipotent Government | p. 30 | Christianity |