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 MISESThey 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.
More Ludwig von Mises Quotes
-
-
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody; the process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples want satisfaction.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
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 MISES -
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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 -
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 -
Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
The planner is a potential dictator who wants to deprive all other people of the power to plan and act according to their own plans. He aims at one thing only: the exclusive absolute preeminence of his own plan.
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 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 -
He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
LUDWIG VON MISES -
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
LUDWIG VON MISES