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Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises – ekonomista austriacki. Brat matematyka Richarda von Misesa.

Przedstawiciel szkoły austriackiej w ekonomii, w poglądach na gospodarkę reprezentował stanowisko leseferystyczne. Twierdził, że niemożliwe jest racjonalne funkcjonowanie gospodarki planowej. Stanowisko to wywołało w okresie międzywojennym szeroką dyskusję teoretyczną . Wikipedia  

✵ 29. Wrzesień 1881 – 10. Październik 1973
Ludwig von Mises: 98   Cytatów 3   Polubienia

Ludwig von Mises słynne cytaty

„Pracownik nie jest winien swemu pracodawcy służalczości i posłuszeństwa. Jest mu jedynie winien usługę, za którą otrzymuje zapłatę, będącą nie łaską, lecz zasłużonym wynagrodzeniem.”

The worker does not owe his employer subservience and obedience; he owes him services; he receives his wage not as a favor, but as an earned reward. (ang.)
Źródło: Interwencjonizm

„Jeśli tylko odrzucimy zasadę, że państwo nie powinno ingerować w żadnym przypadku dotyczącym trybu życia jednostki, skończymy na kontrolowaniu i ograniczaniu tego drugiego w najdrobniejszych szczegółach.”

… [A]s soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individual’s mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest detail. (ang.)

„Celem liberalizmu jest pokojowa współpraca wszystkich ludzi, jak również pokój pomiędzy narodami. Jeśli wszędzie własność środków produkcji będzie się znajdowała w rękach prywatnych, a prawa, sądy i administracja będą traktowały obcokrajowców i obywateli na takich samych warunkach, to nie będzie miało dużego znaczenia to, gdzie przebiegają granice państw. (…) Nie będzie się już opłacało prowadzić wojen; nie będzie powodów do agresji. (…) Wszystkie narody będą mogły współistnieć w pokoju…”

The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country’s frontiers are drawn…. War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression…. All nations can coexist peacefully… (ang.)

Ludwig von Mises Cytaty o ludziach

Ludwig von Mises cytaty

„Znaczenie wolności ekonomicznej jest następujące: jednostka w każdej sytuacji może wybrać sposób, w jaki chce się zintegrować z resztą społeczeństwa.”

The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society. (ang.)

„Albo prywatna własność środków produkcji, albo głód i nędza dla wszystkich.”

Entweder Sondereigentum an den Produktionsmitteln, oder Hunger und Elend für Alle. (niem.)
Źródło: Liberalizm w tradycji klasycznej, tłum. Szymon Czarnik

„Nic dziwnego, że każdy, kto miał coś nowego do zaoferowania ludzkości, nie miał niczego dobrego do powiedzenia o państwie czy o jego prawach.”

No wonder that all who have had something new to offer humanity have had nothing good to say of the state or its laws. (ang.)

„Jeśli historia mogłaby nas czegokolwiek nauczyć, to niewątpliwie tego, że żaden naród nie stworzył wyższej cywilizacji bez poszanowania prawa do posiadania własności prywatnej.”

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. (ang.)

„Najgorsze prawo jest lepsze od biurokratycznej tyranii.”

Źródło: Biurokracja

„Zrozumienie to nie przywilej naukowców, to interes każdego z nas.”

Źródło: Ludzkie działanie. Traktat o ekonomii

„Zyski są siłą napędową gospodarki rynkowej. Im większe są zyski, tym lepiej są zaspokajane potrzeby konsumentów.”

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied. (ang.)

„Każde ludzkie działanie jest racjonalne, nawet jeśli nie jest.”

Źródło: Ludzkie działanie. Traktat o ekonomii

„W zmieniającej się gospodarce działanie jest zawsze spekulacją.”

Źródło: Ludzkie działanie. Traktat o ekonomii

Ludwig von Mises: Cytaty po angielsku

“Now it cannot be denied that the only way one can offer effective resistance to violent assaults is by violence.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Liberalism

: The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 10. The Argument of Fascism https://mises.org/liberal/ch1sec10.asp,Ch.1
Liberalism (1927)
Kontekst: Now it cannot be denied that the only way one can offer effective resistance to violent assaults is by violence. Against the weapons of the Bolsheviks, weapons must be used in reprisal, and it would be a mistake to display weakness before murderers. No liberal has ever called this into question. What distinguishes liberal from Fascist political tactics is not a difference of opinion in regard to the necessity of using armed force to resist armed attackers, but a difference in the fundamental estimation of the role of violence in a struggle for power. The great danger threatening domestic policy from the side of Fascism lies in its complete faith in the decisive power of violence. In order to assure success, one must be imbued with the will to victory and always proceed violently. This is its highest principle. What happens, however, when one's opponent, similarly animated by the will to be victorious, acts just as violently? The result must be a battle, a civil war. The ultimate victor to emerge from such conflicts will be the faction strongest in number. In the long run, a minority — even if it is composed of the most capable and energetic — cannot succeed in resisting the majority. The decisive question, therefore, always remains: How does one obtain a majority for one's own party? This, however, is a purely intellectual matter. It is a victory that can be won only with the weapons of the intellect, never by force. The suppression of all opposition by sheer violence is a most unsuitable way to win adherents to one's cause. Resort to naked force — that is, without justification in terms of intellectual arguments accepted by public opinion — merely gains new friends for those whom one is thereby trying to combat. In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

“The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Liberalism

Źródło: Liberalism (1927), Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 10 : The Argument of Fascism
Kontekst: Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall. The victory of Fascism in a number of countries is only an episode in the long series of struggles over the problem of property. The next episode will be the victory of Communism. The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.
So much for the domestic policy of Fascism. That its foreign policy, based as it is on the avowed principle of force in international relations, cannot fail to give rise to an endless series of wars that must destroy all of modern civilization requires no further discussion. To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

“It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence.”

Źródło: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science (1962), Chapter 5: On Some Popular Errors Concerning the Scope and Method of Economics, § 10 : The Concept of a Perfect System of Government
Kontekst: It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence. The enticement implied is too tempting for a human being. The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.

“It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Liberalism

Źródło: Liberalism (1927), Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 10 : The Argument of Fascism
Kontekst: Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall. The victory of Fascism in a number of countries is only an episode in the long series of struggles over the problem of property. The next episode will be the victory of Communism. The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.
So much for the domestic policy of Fascism. That its foreign policy, based as it is on the avowed principle of force in international relations, cannot fail to give rise to an endless series of wars that must destroy all of modern civilization requires no further discussion. To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

“If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Ludzkie działanie

Źródło: Human Action (1949), Chapter XV. The Market, § 4 The Scope and Method of Catallactics

“Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are forced to remain idle, are the ferment out of which the most radical political movements are formed. In their ranks the soldiers of the coming revolutions are recruited.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Socialism

Part V : The Economics of a Socialist Community, § V : Destructionism, Ch. 33 : The Motive Powers of Destructionism, p. 440 http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msS12.html#V.34.35,Ch.33
Socialism (1922)

“Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i. e., for cash holdings.”

The Free Market and Its Enemies, speech to the Foundation for Economic Education https://fee.org/library/books/the-free-market-and-its-enemies/ (1951)

“The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship”

Theory of Money and Credit http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msT1.html (1912)
Źródło: http://www.econlib.org/library/Mises/msT2.html#I.5.12 | Theory of Money and Credit

“In fact, however, the supporters of the welfare state are utterly anti-social and intolerant zealots.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Socialism

Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)
Kontekst: In fact, however, the supporters of the welfare state are utterly anti-social and intolerant zealots. For their ideology tacitly implies that the government will exactly execute what they themselves deem right and beneficial. They entirely disregard the possibility that there could arise disagreement with regard to the question of what is right and expedient and what is not. They advocate enlightened despotism, but they are convinced that the enlightened despot will in every detail comply with their own opinion concerning the measures to be adopted. They favour planning, but what they have in mind is exclusively their own plan, not those of other people. They want to exterminate all opponents, that is, all those who disagree with them. They are utterly intolerant and are not prepared to allow any discussion. Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator. What he plans is to deprive all other men of all their rights, and to establish his own and his friends' unrestricted omnipotence. He refuses to convince his fellow-citizens. He prefers to "liquidate" them. He scorns the "bourgeois" society that worships law and legal procedure. He himself worships violence and bloodshed.

“To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.”

Ludwig von Mises książka Liberalism

Źródło: Liberalism (1927), Ch. 1 : The Foundations of Liberal Policy § 10 : The Argument of Fascism
Kontekst: Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect — better because they alone give promise of final success. This is the fundamental error from which Fascism suffers and which will ultimately cause its downfall. The victory of Fascism in a number of countries is only an episode in the long series of struggles over the problem of property. The next episode will be the victory of Communism. The ultimate outcome of the struggle, however, will not be decided by arms, but by ideas. It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.
So much for the domestic policy of Fascism. That its foreign policy, based as it is on the avowed principle of force in international relations, cannot fail to give rise to an endless series of wars that must destroy all of modern civilization requires no further discussion. To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. But though its policy has brought salvation for the moment, it is not of the kind which could promise continued success. Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

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