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Force Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and…
- The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the…
- Man is born an asocial and antisocial being. The newborn child is a savage. Egoism is his nature. Only the experience of life and the…
- Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves…
- The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force them…
- War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and…
- The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
- Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.
- Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of…
- Both force and money are impotent against ideas.
- Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
- In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
- Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to…
- Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them…
- The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence…
More Force Quotes
- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin