Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Careers, Fundamentals

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.27, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Envy, Feelings

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

• If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hurt, Freedom, Book

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.22, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• It is completely in accord with the etatist thinking prevalent everywhere today to consider a theory to be finally disposed of merely because the authorities who control appointments to academic positions, want to know nothing of it, and to see the criterion of truth in the approval of a government office.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Thinking, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.196, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Goal, Dominion, Rooms

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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