Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and… — 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… — 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
What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is… — Ludwig von mises Copy Share Image
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism… — 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
