The continued existence of society depends upon private property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no… — 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
