Ludwig Von Mises Quotes
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
The school is a political prize of the highest importance. It cannot be deprived of its political character as long as it remains a public and compulsory institution.
Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.
No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of tangible and material things.
What vitiates entirely the socialists economic critique of capitalism is their failure to grasp the sovereignty of the consumers in the market economy.
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of an election than if one must endure it as the consequence of a military conquest.
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and as necessary.
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.
Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called economic freedom.
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.
The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.
Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.
Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.
The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.
Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.