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
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — 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
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which… — 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
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the… — 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 goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals. — 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
