• The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions, political changes, technologi- cal methods of production, and all that is called economic conditions.

    Ludwig von Mises: The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is 
 ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas 
 engender social institutions, political changes, technologi- 
 cal methods of production, and all that is called economic 
 conditions.