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
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
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your… — 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
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — 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
This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced… — 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 goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private… — 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
Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as… — 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 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
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
All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness 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
