Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The Cost of Ignoring, and Even Denying, Progress

 

"Society cannot, in the long run, exist if it is divided into sharply defined groups, each intent on wresting special privileges for its own members, continually on the alert to see that it does not suffer any setback, and prepared, at any moment, to sacrifice the most important political institutions..."


Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism in the Classical Tradition (1927)