The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
-
-
Know that every breath is a miracle and every moment a blessing and you will achieve your dreams.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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 or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The causes of all panics, crashes and depressions can be summed up in only four words: the misuse of credit.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
All they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing… so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISES