Ludwig von Mises Quotes

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Ludwig von Mises

Profession : Economist

Birth : September 29, 1881

Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig von Mises

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

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

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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

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Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

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Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

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War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

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Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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