“Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It is not in the power of governments to increase the supply of one commodity without a corresponding restriction in the supply… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“In the market economy the consumers are supreme. Consumers determine, by their buying or abstention from buying, what should be produced, by… — 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
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism.… — 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
