Humans Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

Human action is purposeful behavior.

— Ludwig von Mises

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

— Ludwig von Mises

German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

— Ludwig von Mises

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

— Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

— Ludwig von Mises

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,…

— Ludwig von Mises

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus…

— Ludwig von Mises

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and…

— Ludwig von Mises

The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern…

— Ludwig von Mises

Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum…

— Ludwig von Mises

If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or…

— Ludwig von Mises

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.…

— Ludwig von Mises

If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those…

— Ludwig von Mises

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the…

— Ludwig von Mises

There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot…

— Ludwig von Mises

The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of…

— Ludwig von Mises

Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events…

— Ludwig von Mises

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It…

— 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

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he…

— Ludwig von Mises

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under…

— Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human…

— Ludwig von Mises

Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to…

— Ludwig von Mises

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and…

— Ludwig von Mises