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States Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
- All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about…
- 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…
- The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.
- We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely…
- In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the…
- The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom…
- If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their…
- Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an…
- What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of…
- The situation of having to belong to a state to which one does not wish is no less onerous if it is the result of…
- As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end…
- State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive…
- 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…
- 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…
- Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination…
- Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status…
- The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
- Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state…
- Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
- 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 States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur