Action Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Human action is purposeful behavior.

— Ludwig von Mises

What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.

— Ludwig von Mises

All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.

— 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

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

— Ludwig von Mises

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

— Ludwig von Mises

Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of…

— Ludwig von Mises

What is a loophole? If the law does not punish a definite action or does not tax a definite thing, this is…

— Ludwig von Mises

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great…

— Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully…

— Ludwig von Mises

Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables.…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus…

— 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

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

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

Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum…

— Ludwig von Mises

In the land of the lotus-eaters there is no action. Action arises only from need, from dissatisfaction. It is purposeful striving towards…

— Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of…

— Ludwig von Mises

In a game there are winners and losers. But a business deal is always advantageous for both parties. If both the buyer…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that…

— Ludwig von Mises

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as…

— Ludwig von Mises

Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of…

— 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

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions.…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal…

— Ludwig von Mises

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input…

— Ludwig von Mises