Force Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

— Ludwig von Mises

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

— Ludwig von Mises

All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they…

— Ludwig von Mises

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power…

— Ludwig von Mises

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied...…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because…

— Ludwig von Mises

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are…

— Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences…

— Ludwig von Mises

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,…

— Ludwig von Mises

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to…

— Ludwig von Mises

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme…

— Ludwig von Mises

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation…

— Ludwig von Mises

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend…

— Ludwig von Mises

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