Ludwig von Mises Quotes
"Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Society, Peace)
"Peace and not war is the father of all things."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, War, Father)
"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War, Attitude, Destruction, Mind, Nothing)
"Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, Society, Labor)
"Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Men, Fighting)
"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."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Policy, Economy, Manufacturing, Trade)
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: History, Peace, Geography, Nations, Right)
"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Men, War, Civilization, Mankind, Now, Succeed)
"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Business, War, Revolution)
"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Order)
"Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Harm)
"The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: History, Disaster, State)
"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Innovation, Public, Whim)
"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War, Wealth, Cause, Destruction, Result)
"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, Influence, Nations, State)
"Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Victory, Aggression, Conquest, Nations, Popular)
"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, Fight, Wishes)
"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War, Prosperity)
"To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, War, Defeat, Ideology)
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Mankind)
"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Peace, Man)
"The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Conquest, Evil, Spirit, Weapons)
"Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: Nature, Civilization, Man)
"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War, Philosophy)
"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror."
- Ludwig von Mises
(Related: War)