Ludwig Von Mises Quotes

The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.

If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about the sovereignty of the consumers.

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration.

The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purchasing power.

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!

Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.