Society Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

22 Society quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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Ludwig von Mises offers twenty‑two reflections that tie economics to the broader social order. His prose threads market principles with everyday life, giving a clear view of how liberty and policy intersect.

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The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

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Socialist society is a society of officials.

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Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of…

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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father…

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Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

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The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.

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The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the…

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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

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Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

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

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It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human…

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There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events…

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The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist…

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Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual…

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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in…

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Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions.…

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Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it…

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“Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father…

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The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,…

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The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the…

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The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern…

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During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

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

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Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense…

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There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at…

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In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold…

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All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave…

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The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

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