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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1951)
Ludwig von Mises
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| Quote | Source | Page | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract thought is independent of the wishes which move the thinker and of the aims for which he strives. | Socialism | p. 317 | Reason |
| All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient. | Socialism | p. 422 | Welfare |
| All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail. | Socialism | p. 263 | Coercion |
| All economic activity is based upon an uncertain future. It is therefore bound up with risk. It is essentially speculation. | Socialism | p. 181 | Risk |
| All human action, so far as it is rational, appears as the exchange of one condition for another... This is the essence of economic activity--the carrying out of acts of exchange. | Socialism | p. 97 | Exchange |
| All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. | Socialism | p. 97 | Action |
| An eternal capital investment is as non-existent as a secure one. Every capital investment is speculative; its success cannot be foreseen with absolute assurance. | Socialism | p. 339 | Wealth |
| Aprs nous le deluge (After us, the deluge) is an old maxim of government. | Socialism | p. 179 | State |
| As the idea of contract enters the Law of Marriage, it breaks the rule of the male, and makes the wife a partner with equal rights. From a one-sided relationship resting on force, marriage thus becomes a mutual agreement. | Socialism | p. 82 | Marriage |
| By weakening or completely destroying the will to be well and able to work, social insurance creates illness and inability to work; it produces the habit of complaining... it is an institution which tends to encourage disease, not to say accidents, and to intensify considerably the physical and psychic results of accidents and illnesses. As a social institution it makes a people sick bodily and mentally or at least helps to multiply, lengthen, and intensify disease. | Socialism | p. 432 | Social Security |