Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
-
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The gold standard makes the money’s purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
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 -
Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
LUDWIG VON MISES