Quotes by Ludwig von Mises

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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of — Ludwig von Mises
It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor. — Ludwig von Mises
Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and the leaders seek to a — Ludwig von Mises
The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within — Ludwig von Mises
There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market society. The card p — 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 m — Ludwig von Mises
Granted, many of them replied, that socialism may not result in riches for all but rather in a smaller production of wea — Ludwig von Mises
What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperi — Ludwig von Mises
Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he — Ludwig von Mises
Every socialist is a disguised dictator. — Ludwig von Mises
The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalis — Ludwig von Mises
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of publi — Ludwig von Mises
If any of the socialist chiefs had tried to earn his living by selling hot dogs, he would have learned something about t — Ludwig von Mises
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to liv — Ludwig von Mises
It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the veryessence of that — Ludwig von Mises
The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the — Ludwig von Mises
Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop — Ludwig von Mises
The welfare of a people lies not in casting other peoples down but in peaceful collaboration. — Ludwig von Mises
The central element in the economic problem of money is the objective exchange-value of money, popularly called its purc — Ludwig von Mises
The phenomenon of money presupposes an economic order in which production is based on division of labour and in which pr — Ludwig von Mises