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28 quotes
Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)
“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”
"No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want."
on Freedom
"Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism."
on Philosophy
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
on Truth
"Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly."
on Government
"The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war."
on War
"Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation."
"War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings."
on Wisdom
"The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve."
on Biology
"Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking."
on Community
"Peace and not war is the father of all things."
on Peace
"Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship."
on Capitalism
"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
"Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business."
"Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live."
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace."
on Human Rights
"War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror."
"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."
"Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop."
"Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water."
on Socialism
"It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor."
