The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The masses, in their capacity as consumers, ultimately determine everybody's revenues and wealth. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence"… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What can prevent the coming of totalitarian socialism is only a thorough change in ideologies. What we need is an open positive… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wealth;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their… — 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
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