While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to… — 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
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
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — 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
Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors. — 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
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness. — 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
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
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
Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 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
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
The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of… — 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
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
