Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Fundamentally all social and political questions are economic.

Very few people in Congress know very much about economics.

The study of economics has been again and again led astray by the vain idea that economics must proceed according to the pattern of other sciences.

We have become too much a society of consumers rather than a society of citizens.

Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

Economics is not an exact science.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

Art is not in some far-off place.

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles.

I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people.

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.