black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.

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

Catchword Civilization Continue Help Inciting Mass Socialism Sound Taken Work Year
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Market Misery Socialism State Step Transform Welfare
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Acknowledge Criteria Criterion Prepare Truth
What pushes the masses into the camp of socialism is, even more than the illusion that socialism will make them richer, the expectation that it will curb all those who are better than they themselves are.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Envy Expectation Ilusion Mass Push Richer Socialism
In such vital matters blind reliance upon ‘experts’ and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people’s domination.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Catchwork Domination Matter Other Person Popular Reliance Vital Yield
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Call Consequences Government Intervention Marketplace Unintended
The advocates of public control cannot do without inflation. They need it in order to finance their policy of reckless spending and of lavishly subsidizing and bribing the voters.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Advocate Control Inflation Need Order Public Voter
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Acknowledge Construction Dreadful Peace Root War Weapon
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

Amount Better Capital Consume Good Greater Head Invest Produce
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

Abandonment Alternative Come Currency Expansion Involved Sooner Voluntary Whether
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Between Capitalism Choose Socialism Society System
They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Constitution Direct Freedom Government Illusory Law Market Other System
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Government Make Poorer Richer
The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Endure Evil Government Infected Mankind Worst
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Liberation Mankind Ned Ninsensical Reason Return Rule Slogan Sound Today
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
LUDWIG VON MISES

Difficult Enter Freedom Indivisible One Restrict Soon Start Stop

Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ludwig von Mises Quotes