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
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 Copy Share Image
It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities… — 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
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender… — 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
Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority,… — 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
These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 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
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against… — 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
