Mises Quotes

Mises Quote of the day

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

We really don’t get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

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 proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.

The market system is the basis of our civilization. Its only alternative is the Führer principle.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems

The balance-of-payments theory forgets that the volume of foreign trade is completely dependent upon prices

Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals

By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money