Ludwig von Mises Quotes
Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
"Peace and not war is the father of all things."
"The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air."
"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism."
"Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer."
"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror."
"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings."
"Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking."
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
"The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest."
"If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization."
"This, then, is freedom in the external life of man — that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows."
"Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates."
"Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied."
"All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts."
"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
"Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable."
"The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality."
"As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome."
"The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline."
"A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. 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."
Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com
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