Quotes from Ludwig von Mises

One thing, however, must be made clear; even now the State has not the power of directly making anything into money, that is to say into a common medium of exchange. Even nowadays, it is only the practice of the individuals who take part in business that can make a commodity into a medium of exchange.

Chi sostiene un sistema schiavistico non si ferma mai a riflettere su come egli stesso potrebbe diventarne vittima.

credit set business free from dependence on the simultaneous occurrence of demand and supply.

the Keynesian miracle fails to materialize; the stones do not turn into bread.

According to the Marxist conception, one's social condition determines one's way of thought. His membership of a social class decides what views a writer will express.

With all production, employment, and distribution of output completely under the monopoly control of the State, the fate and fortune of every individual would be at the mercy of the political authority.

Nunca e em lugar algum do universo existe estabilidade e imobilidade. Mudança e transformação são características essenciais da vida. Cada estado de coisas é passageiro; cada época é uma época de transição. Na vida humana nunca há calma e repouso. A vida é um processo e não a permanência no status quo.

Porque tal es la ley de la democracia económica del mercado. Aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de un número menor de personas solo recaudan menos votos -dólares- que aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de más personas.

Tacitly underlying Marxian theory is the nebulous idea that the natural factors of production are such that they need not be economized.

El sistema de ganancias hace prosperar a esos hombres que han tenido éxito en llenar las necesidades de las personas de la mejor y más barata manera posible. La riqueza solo puede adquirirse sirviendo a los consumidores. Los capitalistas pierden sus fondos tan pronto como no los invierten en aquellas líneas en las que satisfacen mejor las demandas del público.

To a considerable extent, without knowing it, many people are philosophical Marxists, although they use different names for their philosophical ideas.

panmechanistic world view is committed to a methodological monism; it acknowledges only mechanistic causality because it attributes to it alone any cognitive value or at least a higher cognitive value than to teleology.

The peculiarity of land as a means of production is, partly, what gives the ownership of real property its special position in the Law.

La gente puede estar en desacuerdo sobre la cuestión de si todos deberían estudiar economía en serio. Pero una cosa es segura. Un hombre que habla o escribe públicamente sobre la oposición entre el capitalismo y el socialismo sin haberse familiarizado completamente con todo lo que la economía tiene que decir sobre estos temas es un charlatán irresponsable.

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.

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

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.

Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.

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 worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.