Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
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 Quote
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
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 Quote
Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
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 Quote
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- Ludwig von Mises Quote