Plague Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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…

— Ludwig von Mises

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic…

— Hans Zinsser

[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of…

— Ludwig von Mises

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War…

— Condoleezza Rice

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can not be found poor with a mouth full of prosperity. Like wise you shall never act foolish with your mouth full of…

— Marv Stark

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

— Margaret Cavendish

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to…

— Anonymous

He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism…

— Ludwig von Mises

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements…

— Ludwig von Mises

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's…

— Robert Charles Wilson

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

— Ludwig von Mises