The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the… — 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
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