Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• The main achievement of economics is that it has provided a theory of peaceful human cooperation. This is why the harbingers of violent conflict have branded it as a dismal science and why this age of wars, civil wars, and destruction has no use for it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Achievement, Peaceful

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

• The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Winning, Views, Order

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “On the Manipulation of Money and Credit”, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Free Market Books

• People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Rights, Division Of Labor

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.209, Lulu Press, Inc

• The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Law, Essence

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.49, VM eBooks

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