All Ludwig von Mises Quotes
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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Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
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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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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.
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War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
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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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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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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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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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