The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
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.
It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.
The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression... All nations can coexist peacefully.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
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