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Letter "L" » Ludwig von Mises Quotes
«War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.»
«Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.»
«Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.»
«Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.»
«Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made.»
«A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.»
«The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.»
«Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.»
«In periods of slow alterations in the relation between the supply of and the demand for money they do not convey any information at all. In periods of inflation and consequently of sharp price changes they provide a rough image of events which every individual experiences in his daily life.»