All LUDWIG VON MISES Quotes about “Mankind”

“Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.”
“The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas engender social institutions, political changes, technologi- cal methods of production, and all that is called economic conditions.”
“The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.”
“Only the naive inflationist's could believe that government could enrich mankind through fiat money.”
“Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.”
“What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.”
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”

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