Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Animal, Men, Sensual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

• Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'être to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Violence

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

• He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Passion, Men, Emotional

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.23, Lulu Press, Inc

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