Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

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  The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Government

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Roots

• The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Civilization, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

• Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Evil, Giving, Investing

• The word "Capitalism" expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Evil, Age

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.2, VM eBooks

• All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Evil, Outcomes, Evidence

• Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Fighting, Evil

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”

• As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Evil, Liberty

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.38, VM eBooks

• If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Evil, Balance

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.73, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Attitude, Fighting, People

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.112, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Evil, Historical

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful
  conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of
  living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities
  whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, People, Evil

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

• Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Exercise, Thinking, Evil

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