Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Miseswas a theoretical Austrian School economist. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action. Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1940. Mises's writings have exerted significant influence on the libertarian movement in the United States since the mid-20th century...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth29 September 1881
CountryAustria
Ludwig von Mises quotes about
attitude fighting evil
An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.
fighting police doctrine
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.
stupid fighting evil
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
fighting ideas substitutes
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
fighting boss unions
Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.
fighting men hands
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow...
fighting people liberty
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
war fighting wish
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
fighting men order
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
religious believe logical-arguments
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.
men way wealth
A wealthy man can preserve his wealth only by continuing to serve the consumers in the most efficient way.
income wealth enterprise
In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.
causes wealth mass
The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.
school citizens incentives
The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.