Maxioms by Ludwig Von Mises
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of read more
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.
To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement read more
To illustrate the difference between the innovator and the dull crowd of routinists who cannot even imagine that any improvement is possible, we need only refer to a passage in Engel's most famous book. Here, in 1878, Engels apodictically announced that military weapons are "now so perfected that no further progress of any revolutionizing influence is any longer possible." Henceforth "all further [technological] progress is by and large indifferent for land warfare. The age of evolution is in this regard essentially closed." This complacent conclusion shows in what the achievement of the innovator consists: he accomplishes what other people believe to be unthinkable and unfeasible.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and read more
The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it read more
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the read more
Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
