Ludwig von Mises: "Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends." - The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science
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| Ludwig von Mises | Class consciousness, created by the ideology of the class conflict, is the essence of the struggle, and not vice versa. The idea created the class, not the class the idea. | Socialism | p. 306 | Conflict |
| Ludwig von Mises | There are no irreconcilable conflicts between selfishness and altruism, between economics and ethics, between the concerns of the individual and those of society. | Theory and History | pp. 54-55 | Conflict |