The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. — 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
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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