Ludwig von Mises Quotes

It is ... difficult to induce a number of free beings to co-operate for their mutual benefit.

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

I much preferred the approach at the anarchist camp, with its shared tasks and collective responsibilities. Everyone played their part. There was no division between workers and consumers.

In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

Anybody that I can work with that will help improve the lives of New Yorkers, I will work with that person.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

States working together can achieve more than what even the most powerful state can accomplish by itself.

I lose faith in any cooperative, commonwealth; cannot see how, after all, there will be incentives.

We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.

Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.

We want to create a society that is working for us and with us - and we're working for society, not against it.

Let's help each other. New York, because New York is first. And then after New York, and after the curve breaks in New York, let's all rush to whoever's second. And then let's all rush to whoever's third. And let's learn from each other and help each other.

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

Help me help you help yourself is kind of the motto I have.

It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.

One hand washeth another, and both the face.

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.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

There is no common understanding, and no community life. But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa.

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

One hand washes the other.

If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.