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Conditions Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible…
- The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day…
- There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
- Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of…
- It is extremely difficult for our contemporaries to conceive of the conditions of free banking because they take government interference with banking for granted and…
- While under precapitalistic conditions superior men were the masters on whom the masses of the inferior had to attend, under capitalism the more gifted and…
- These people talk of a "middle-of-the-road" policy. What they do not see is that the isolated interference, which means the interference with only one small…
- Thus, the isolated interference with one or a few prices of consumer goods always bring about effects-and this is important to realize-which are even less…
- Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived…
- The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.
- There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in…
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has…
- Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions,…
More Conditions Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum… — Karen Armstrong
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is… — Bernard Baruch
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul. — Charles Baudelaire
- Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily… — Jane Addams
- As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage… — John Desmond Bernal
- One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant