In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inflationism, however, is not an isolated phenomenon. It is only one piece in the total framework of politico-economic and socio-philosophical ideas of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the… — 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
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — 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
