Ludwig von Mises Quotes About Well Being

Quotes about: Well Being

• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Suffering, Liberty

• 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

• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

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

• Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Mean

  "Human Action: A Treatise on Economics".

• As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Helping Others, Overcoming

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.392, VM eBooks

• The wealth of the well-to-do of an industrial society is both the cause and effect of the masses' well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Causes, Wealth, Mass

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

• It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and feign in their declamations—not in their personal conduct—a disdain of things secular and transitory. But the public ignores such utterances. The main goal of present-day political action is to secure for the respective pressure group memberships the highest material well-being. The only way for a leader to succeed is to instill in people the conviction that his program best serves the attainment of this goal.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Pressure Groups, Circles, Goal

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

• The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Increase, Aim

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

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