26 Quotes by Ludwig Mises
- If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
- Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
- 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.
- If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
- If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
- Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
- A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
- Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
- The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
- Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
- War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.
- Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
- Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
- War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
- To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
- The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
- The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
- The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
- Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
- The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
- War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
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