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Public Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire…
- Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
- Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio…
- Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
- The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole…
- It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and…
- There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the…
- The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that…
- 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 struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
- History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads,…
- Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required (think stimulus) by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public,…
- There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public…
- What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,…
- In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability…
- Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not…
More Public Quotes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.… — Neil Armstrong
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. — Alfred Austin
- The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly… — Charles Babbage
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he… — Charles Babbage
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet