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Ludwig von Mises [1881-1973] Austrian

Rank: 101
Economist

Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was a theoretical Austrian School economist. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism. He is best known for his work on praxeology, a study of human choice and action.
Mises emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1940.

Peace, War, Society, Attitude, Business, Finance, Government, History, Men, Power

Quote	Tags	Rank
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.		101
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.	Business, Finance, War	102
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.	Men	103
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.	Peace, Society	104
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.	Attitude, War	105
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.	History	106
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.	Government	107
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.	Peace, War	108
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.	Peace	109
War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.	War	110
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.	War	111
A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.	War	112
Peace and not war is the father of all things.	Peace	113
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.		114
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.		115
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.		116
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.		117
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.	Peace	118
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.	War	119
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.	Peace, Power	120
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.	Peace	121
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.		122
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.	Society	123
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.		124
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.		125
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.		126

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