Ludwig von Mises: "Not the Russian armies, but the communist ideologies threaten the West." - Planned Chaos
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| Ludwig von Mises | The evil that a man inflicts on his fellow man injures bothnot only the one to whom it is done, but also the one who does it. Nothing corrupts a man so much as being an arm of the law and making men suffer. | Liberalism | p. 58 | Corruption |
| Ludwig von Mises | The corruption of the regulatory bodies does not shake his blind confidence in the infallibility and perfection of the state; it merely fills him with moral aversion to entrepreneurs and capitalists. | A Critique of Interventionism | p. 30 | Corruption |
| Ludwig von Mises | Corruption is an evil inherent in every government not controlled by a watchful public opinion. | Omnipotent Government | p. 206 | Corruption |