People Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

— Ludwig von Mises

What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.

— Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state.

— Ludwig von Mises

The people who think that the power of big business is enormous are mistaken

— Ludwig von Mises

Progressive taxation of income and profits means that precisely those parts of the income which people would have saved and invested are…

— Ludwig von Mises

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not…

— Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

— Ludwig von Mises

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of…

— 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

There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the…

— Ludwig von Mises

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by…

— Ludwig von Mises

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power…

— Ludwig von Mises

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the…

— Ludwig von Mises

Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to…

— Ludwig von Mises

The government and its chiefs do not have the powers of the mythical Santa Claus. They cannot spend except by taking out…

— Ludwig von Mises

The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the…

— Ludwig von Mises

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions…

— 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

The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production.…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment…

— 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

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

— Ludwig von Mises

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

— Ludwig von Mises

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is…

— Ludwig von Mises

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

— Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

— Ludwig von Mises

Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people.

— Ludwig von Mises

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more…

— Ludwig von Mises

If people do not consume their whole incomes, the non-consumed surplus can be invested, it increases the amount of capital goods available…

— Ludwig von Mises

The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too,…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to…

— Ludwig von Mises

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general…

— Ludwig von Mises

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord.…

— Ludwig von Mises

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense…

— Ludwig von Mises

The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they…

— Ludwig von Mises