Ludwig von Mises Life Quotations

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

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.