Ludwig von Mises Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Ludwig von Mises:
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
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Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
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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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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
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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.
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
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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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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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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
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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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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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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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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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Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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