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 Copy Share Image
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per… — 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
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The state is the only institution entitled to apply coercion and compulsion and to inflict harm upon individuals. This tremendous power cannot… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the… — 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
State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters,… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — 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
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — 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… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If it is unnecessary to adjust the amount of expenditure to the means available, there is no limit to the spending of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether… — 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
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and… — 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
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — 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
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
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
“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
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
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
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
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
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
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
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
The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share
