A.R. Von Quotes

Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.

Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Economic theory has demonstrated in an irrefutable way that a prosperity created by an expansionist monetary and credit policy is illusory and must end in a slump, an economic crisis.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

In England the more horses a nobleman has, the more popular he is. So long as the English are devoted to racing, Socialism has no chance with you.

Professor von Mises has a splendid analytical mind and an admirable passion for liberty; but as a student of human nature he is worse than null and as a debater he is of Hyde Park standard.

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.

I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism

Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Blood is the price of victory

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

My goal in life is to be your best friend when you open your closet