Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Liberty, Politics

• Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Alternatives, Politics

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

• The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Expansion, Finals, Credit

• If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

• The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Life, People, Intellectual

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.81, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Essence, Play, Roles

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

• Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Strong, Freedom

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

• Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Ideas, Political

• What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs, operating in a market economy as far as it is not sabotaged by the endeavors of the nonprogressive majority of the routinists and the public policies supported by them.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Class, Entrepreneur, Progress

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

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