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Ideas
| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both force and money are impotent against ideas. | Omnipotent Government | p. 210 | Ideas |
| Great conflicts of ideas must be solved by straight and frank methods; they cannot be solved by artifices and makeshifts. | Planning for Freedom | p. 14 | Ideas |
| Ideas live longer than walls and other material artifacts. | Theory and History | p. 196 | Ideas |
| In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails. | Liberalism | p. 50 | Ideas |
| In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrants feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters. | Theory and History | p. 372 | Ideas |
| No mass phenomenon can be adequately treated without analyzing the ideas implied. And no new ideas spring from the mythical mind of the masses. | Theory and History | p. 263 | Ideas |
| No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interests, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle. None can stand aside with unconcern; the interests of everyone hang on the result. | Socialism | pp. 468-69 | Ideas |
| One cannot organize or institutionalize the emergence of new ideas. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 129 | Ideas |
| Only ideas can overcome ideas. | Socialism | p. 460 | Ideas |
| The ideas that change the intellectual climate of a given environment are those unheard of before. For these new ideas there is no other explanation than that there was a man from whose mind they originated. | The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science | p. 91 | Ideas |