All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no reason why capitalists and entrepreneurs should be ashamed of earning profits. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the… — 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 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
Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 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
A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a… — 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
