Ludwig von Mises Quotes

• There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.

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• Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

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• Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

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• Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

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• War… is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

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• War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

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• War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

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• To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

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• The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

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• The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

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• The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

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• The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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• Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

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• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

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• Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.

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• Peace and not war is the father of all things.

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• Only one thing can conquer war – that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.

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• Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.

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• Men are fighting… because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

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Birth:	29th September, 1881
Death:	10th October, 1973
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Economist, Philosopher

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