Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Anarchism misunderstands the real nature of man. It would be practicable only in a world of angels and saints — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Capitalism gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The governments alone are responsible for the spread of the superstitious awe with which the common man looks upon every bit of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The idea of Socialism is at once grandiose and simple. . .We may say, in fact, that it is one of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by… — 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
