The Anti-capitalistic Mentality Quotes

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

“The people of the United States are more prosperous…because their government embarked later than other governments…upon the policy of obstructing business”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“The vain arrogance of the literati and the Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessmen as unintellectual money-making. The truth is that the entrepreneurs and promoters display more intellectual faculties and intuition than the average writer and painter. The inferiority of many self-styled intellectuals manifests itself precisely in the fact that they fail to recognize what capacity and reasoning power are required to develop and to operate successfully a business enterprise.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

“the root of the opposition to liberalism cannot be reached by resort to the method of reason. This opposition does not stem from reason, but from a pathological mental attitude, from resentment and from a neurasthenic condition that one might call a Fourier complex, after the French socialist of that name”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society’s economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in the good old days preceding the Industrial Revolution. Now under capitalism the immense majority are starving paupers ruthlessly exploited by rugged individualists. For these scoundrels nothing counts but their moneyed interests. They do not produce good and really useful things, but only what will yield the highest profits. They poison bodies with alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and souls and minds with tabloids, lascivious books and silly moving pictures. The “ideological superstructure” of capitalism is a literature of decay and degradation, the burlesque show and the art of striptease, the Hollywood pictures and the detective stories.”
― Ludwig Von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

“Today the apologists of socialism are forced to distort facts and to misrepresent the manifest meaning of words when they want to make people believe in the compatibility of socialism and freedom.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“The people of the United States are more prosperous than the inhabitants of all other countries because their government embarked later than the governments in other parts of the world upon the policy of obstructing business.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

“Man’s most characteristic mark is that he never ceases in endeavors to advance his well-being by purposive activity.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“La inferioridad de muchos autodenominados intelectuales se manifiesta precisamente en el hecho de que no reconocen qué capacidad y poder de razonamiento se requieren para desarrollar y operar con éxito una empresa comercial.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“The first thing a genius needs is to breathe free air.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“Why do they all loathe capitalism? Why do they, while en-joying the well-being capitalism bestows upon them, cast long-ing glances upon the “good old days” of the past and the miser-able conditions of the present-day Russian worker?”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“People are anxious to endorse the tenets they consider as fashionable lest they appear boorish and backward.”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality

“Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“Es cierto, habría sido una empresa sin esperanza atacar abiertamente la libertad y defender sinceramente un retorno al sometimiento y la esclavitud. Pero el antiliberalismo se apoderó de las mentes de las personas camufladas como superliberalismo, como el cumplimiento y la consumación de las mismas ideas de autodeterminación y libertad. Vino disfrazado de socialismo, comunismo y planificación.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“La gente puede estar en desacuerdo sobre la cuestión de si todos deberían estudiar economía en serio. Pero una cosa es segura. Un hombre que habla o escribe públicamente sobre la oposición entre el capitalismo y el socialismo sin haberse familiarizado completamente con todo lo que la economía tiene que decir sobre estos temas es un charlatán irresponsable.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“Desde el punto de vista de estos dogmas, los progresistas defienden ciertas políticas que, como pretenden, podrían aliviar de inmediato la suerte de las masas que sufren. Recomiendan, por ejemplo, la expansión del crédito y aumentar la cantidad de dinero en circulación, las tasas de salario mínimo decretadas y aplicadas por el gobierno o por la presión y violencia sindical, el control de los precios de los productos básicos y las rentas y otras medidas intervencionistas. Pero los economistas han demostrado que todas esas panaceas no logran los resultados que sus partidarios quieren alcanzar.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“Desde los comienzos del movimiento socialista y los esfuerzos por revivir las políticas intervencionistas de las edades precapitalistas, tanto el socialismo como el intervencionismo quedaron totalmente desacreditados a los ojos de aquellos versados en la teoría económica. Pero las ideas de los revolucionarios y los reformadores encontraron aprobación con la inmensa mayoría de las personas ignorantes impulsadas exclusivamente por las pasiones humanas más poderosas: la envidia y el odio.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“El sistema de ganancias hace prosperar a esos hombres que han tenido éxito en llenar las necesidades de las personas de la mejor y más barata manera posible. La riqueza solo puede adquirirse sirviendo a los consumidores. Los capitalistas pierden sus fondos tan pronto como no los invierten en aquellas líneas en las que satisfacen mejor las demandas del público.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“Porque tal es la ley de la democracia económica del mercado. Aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de un número menor de personas solo recaudan menos votos -dólares- que aquellos que satisfacen las necesidades de más personas.”
― Ludwig von Mises, La mentalidad anticapitalista

“Credit expansion results in the recurrence of economic crisis and periods of depression. Inflation makes the prices of all commodities and services soar. The attempts to enforce wage rates higher than those the unhampered market would have determined produce mass unemployment prolonged year after year. Price ceilings result in a drop in the supply of commodities affected. The economists have proved these theorems in an irrefutable way. No”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“Nunca e em lugar algum do universo existe estabilidade e imobilidade. Mudança e transformação são características essenciais da vida. Cada estado de coisas é passageiro; cada época é uma época de transição. Na vida humana nunca há calma e repouso. A vida é um processo e não a permanência no status quo.”
― Ludwig von Mises, A mentalidade anticapitalista