Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 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
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
American authors or scientists are prone to consider the wealthy businessman as a barbarian, as a man exclusively intent upon making money. — 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… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men. — 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 common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they… — 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
Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live… — 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
