Ludwig von Mises

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

— Ludwig von Mises

The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer.

— Ludwig von Mises

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

— Ludwig von Mises

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

— Ludwig von Mises

Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Ludwig von Mises

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

— Ludwig von Mises

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

— Ludwig von Mises

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Economic progress is the work of the savers, who accumulate capital, and of the entrepreneurs, who turn capital to new uses.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not…

— Ludwig von Mises

There were nowhere more docile disciples of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin than the Nazis were.

— Ludwig von Mises

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

— Ludwig von Mises

The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles…

— 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

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

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power…

— Ludwig von Mises

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital…

— Ludwig von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every…

— Ludwig von Mises

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of…

— 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

The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble. It would…

— Ludwig von Mises

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual…

— 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

Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new…

— Ludwig von Mises

A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a…

— Ludwig von Mises

The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts…

— Ludwig von Mises

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment…

— 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

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

“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“Except for Christianity, the Nazis reject as Jewish everything which stems from Jewish authors. This condemnation includes the writings of those Jews…

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

“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

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

“These people look upon inequality as upon an evil. They do not assert that a definite degree of inequality which can be…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“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

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

— Ludwig von Mises