Ludwig von Mises Quotes About War
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Only one thing can conquer war-that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings...but no one has for those reasons yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.
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Government force is derived from the sum of the physical force each citizen could exert which by one citizen himself would be ineffective, but when summed from the force of all the area's citizens indeed composes a power no citizen or group can withstand. That force is then rightly but justly to be used against those who violate the foundation pillars of freedom.
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
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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.
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Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.
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Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.
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War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
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War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. 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. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.
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The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
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To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
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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.
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The characteristic mark of this age of dictators, wars and revolutions is its anticapitalistic bias. Most governments and political parties were eager to restrict the sphere of private initiative and free enterprise.
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It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
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Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
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Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.
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The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
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Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.
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The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
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