Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Without exception all political parties promise their supporters a higher real income. There is no difference in this respect between nationalists and… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“All varieties of the producers' policy are advocated on the ground of their alleged ability to raise the party members' standard of… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Where there is no market economy, the best intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Governments, political parties, pressure groups, and the bureaucrats of the educational hierarchy think they can avoid the inevitable consequences of unsuitable measures… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
