To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital… — 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
In talking about equality and asking vehemently for its realization, nobody advocates a curtailment of his own present income. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume. — 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
