Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Welfare

Quotes about: Welfare

• The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Steps, Socialism, Welfare

• You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you owe to the effort of men who are better than you. If this be arrogance, as some of your critics observed, it is still the truth that had to said in the age of the Welfare State.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Effort, Arrogance

  Ludvig von Mises' letter to Ayn Rand praising Atlas Shrugged (January 23, 1958) as quoted in Jorg Guido Hulsmann "Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism", September 4, 2007.

• The policies advocated by the welfare school remove the incentive to saving on the part of private citizens.

  Ludwig von Mises

  School, Citizens, Incentives

• Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve.'

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Self, Views

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

• There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Planning, Welfare, General Welfare

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

• No increase in the welfare of the member of society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Availability, Welfare, Increase

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.86, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Struggle, Men

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.260, VM eBooks

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