A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. Ludwig von Mises More Quotes by Ludwig von Mises More Quotes From Ludwig von Mises The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. Ludwig von Mises genius air needs The market system makes all producers responsible to the consumer. Ludwig von Mises consumers responsible producers Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats. Ludwig von Mises airplane talking moving The consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. Ludwig von Mises office loss mean The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. Ludwig von Mises capitalist-economy strong desire The market and its inescapable law are supreme. Ludwig von Mises supreme law Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. Ludwig von Mises economic ends mean Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears. Ludwig von Mises division principles essence Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. Ludwig von Mises learning knowledge school Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs. Ludwig von Mises progressive-taxation successful names The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses. Ludwig von Mises marketing principles needs The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises develop into "big business" was precisely their success in filling best the demand of the masses. Ludwig von Mises entrepreneur law country Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference. Ludwig von Mises police liberty mean Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation. Ludwig von Mises suggestions goal past Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions. Ludwig von Mises political different religious The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes. Ludwig von Mises mistake mean facts A famous, very often quoted phrase says: "That government is best, which governs least." I do not believe this to be a correct description of of the functions of a good government. Government ought to do all the things for which it is needed and for which it is established. Government ought to protect the individuals within the country against the violent and fraudulent attacks of gangsters, and it should defend the country against foreign enemies. These are the functions of government within a free system, within the system of the market economy. Ludwig von Mises government believe country Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms. Ludwig von Mises arms defeat mean There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got. Ludwig von Mises entrepreneur successful people Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort. Ludwig von Mises effort democracy people
