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Explore our hand-picked selection of 571 inspiring quotes by Ludwig von Mises.

About Ludwig von Mises

  • Born: September 29, 1881
  • Died: October 10, 1973
  • Occupation: Philosopher
    • Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
    Stupid Fighting Evil
    He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists.
    Fall Liberty May
    Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. it seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. but it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.
    Philosophy Animal Psychology
    The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.
    Society Fields Events
    The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. the consumers are the sovereign people. the capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. if they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what
    People Giving Entrepreneur
    The reichswirtschaftsministerium ('reich ministry of economic affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom to buy, at what prices and to whom to sell. it assigns every worker to his job and fixes his wages. it decrees to whom and on what terms the capitalists must entrust their funds. market exchange is merely a sham.
    Jobs History Ministry
    Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. that force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.
    War Government Foundation
    Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.
    Competition Economy Doom
    The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.
    Men Merit Common
    Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
    Progress Society Encounters
    The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. it can apply to itself the words of sir christopher wren's epitaph in st. paul's: 'if you seek his monument, look around.'
    Liberty Wrens Needs
    If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. but all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.
    Men Would Be Branches
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