Men Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

— Ludwig von Mises

A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions.

— Ludwig von Mises

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

— Ludwig von Mises

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

— Ludwig von Mises

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

— Ludwig von Mises

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

— Ludwig von Mises

If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

— Ludwig von Mises

American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money.

— Ludwig von Mises

Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to…

— Ludwig von Mises

Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to…

— Ludwig von Mises

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they…

— Ludwig von Mises

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

— Ludwig von Mises

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their…

— Ludwig von Mises

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender…

— Ludwig von Mises

While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by…

— Ludwig von Mises

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or…

— Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people…

— Ludwig von Mises

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints

— Ludwig von Mises

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

— Ludwig von Mises

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

— Ludwig von Mises

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

— Ludwig von Mises

The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on…

— Ludwig von Mises

The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

— Ludwig von Mises