70 Top Ludwig Von Mises Quotes To Enlighten Your Mind
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization
He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.
He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.
The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.
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.
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will
Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.
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.
The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.
The average man is both better informed and less corruptible in the decisions he makes as a consumer than as a voter at political elections.
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Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Every type of socialism is unworkable because economic calculation is impossible in a socialist community.
Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
The elimination of profit, whatever methods may be resorted to for its execution, must transform society into a senseless jumble.
In a capitalist society one can hold on to one’s fortune only if one perpetually acquires it anew by investing it wisely.
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.
In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.
