It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market is not a place, a thing, or a collective entity. It is a process. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The continued existence of society depends upon private property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better or more cheaply. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator — 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