Mental attitude Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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

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

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

— Ludwig von Mises

“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

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

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

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

There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about.

— Ludwig von Mises

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

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