Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

• Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Luxury, Giving, Example

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

  Ludwig von Mises

  Evil, Giving, Investing

• The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Giving, Democracy, Pennies

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Race

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

• The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Giving, Doe

• Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Giving, Doe, Finals

  Ludwig Von Mises, Israël M. Kirzner (1982). “Method, Process, and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig Von Mises”, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books

• Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them the power to force all those engaged in production to comply with their orders. It forces all those engaged in production to the utmost exertion in the service of the consumers. It makes competition work. He who best serves the consumers profits most and accumulates riches.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Order, Giving, Competition

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

• 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

• The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

• Within the market society each serves all his fellow citizens and each is served by them. It is a system of mutual exchange of services and commodities, a mutual giving, and receiving.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Giving, Receiving, Citizens

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

• The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Giving, Magic

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.78, VM eBooks

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