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
peace war mean
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
peace war division-of-labor
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
division-of-labor peaceful society
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived from peaceful cooperation and division of labor are universal.
peace war father
Peace and not war is the father of all things.
war conqueror peacemaking
War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
peace war defeat
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
civilization peaceful operations
Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.
peace money war
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
peace war house
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
peace war essence
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
peace war race
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
peace war liberty
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
war achievement peaceful
The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.
men peaceful feminism
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal and economic freedom to develop and act in accordance with her inclinations, desires, and economic circumstances—so far it is nothing more than a branch of the great liberal movement, which advocates peaceful and free evolution.