[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
LUDWIG VON MISES
A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
-
[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics
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 -
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 -
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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 final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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 -
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
A new type of superstition has got hold of people’s minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!
LUDWIG VON MISES -
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