The continued existence of society depends upon private property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The living is not perfect because it is liable to change; the dead is not perfect because it does not live. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek… — 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
“If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free… — 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
