… is from page 7 of Ludwig von Mises’s 1945 paper “Planning for Freedom,” as reprinted in the 2008 Liberty Fund edition of Mises’s 1952 collection, Planning for Freedom:
However good intentions may be, they can never render unsuitable means any more suitable.
DBx: Indisputably correct. And yet, all around us we find people who think of themselves as wise, insightful, and realistic judging economic and political activities exclusively either by the express motives of the actors or by what the observers imagine the actors’ motives to be.
