“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 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
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
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
Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers… — 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
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. — 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
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory… — 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 market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not… — 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
Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the… — 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 Image
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 Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — 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 "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
