In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESIn a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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 MISESNone 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 MISESCapitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISESAll 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 MISESEvery socialist is a disguised dictator.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.
LUDWIG VON MISESGovernment is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
LUDWIG VON MISESWhoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.
LUDWIG VON MISESThis 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 MISESA 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 MISESThe state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe 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 MISESThe 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 MISESSociety has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
LUDWIG VON MISES