Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The egalitarian doctrine is manifestly contrary to all the facts established by biology and by history. Only fanatical partisans of this theory… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My theories explain, but cannot slow the decline of a great civilization. I set out to be a reformer, but only became… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises”. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories,… — 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
