| Ludwig von Mises | The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny. | Bureaucracy | p. 76 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain. | Bureaucracy | p. 55 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Bureaucratic management is management of affairs which cannot be checked by economic calculation. | Bureaucracy | p. 48 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator. | Bureaucracy | p. 67 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | The ultimate basis of an all around bureaucratic system is violence. | Bureaucracy | p. 104 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | The first virtue of an administrator is to abide by the codes and decrees. | Bureaucracy | p. 41 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient. | Bureaucracy | p. 66 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | A bureaucrat differs from a nonbureaucrat precisely because he is working in a field in which it is impossible to appraise the result of a mans effort in terms of money. | Bureaucracy | p. 53 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks. | Bureaucracy | p. 67 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | The trend toward bureaucratic rigidity is not inherent in the evolution of business. It is an outcome of government meddling with business. | Bureaucracy | p. 12 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. | Bureaucracy | p. 64 | Bureaucracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | The elaborate methods of modern bookkeeping, accountancy, and business statistics provide the enterpriser with a faithful image of all his operations. He is in a position to learn how successful or unsuccessful every one of his transactions was. | Bureaucracy | p. 32 | Economic Calculation |
| Ludwig von Mises | The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the peoples mandatories. | Bureaucracy | pp. 2122 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management. | Bureaucracy | p. 10 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Most people joined the staff of the government offices because the salary and the pension offered were higher than what they could expect to earn in other occupations. They did not renounce anything in serving the government. Civil service was for them the most profitable job they could find. | Bureaucracy | p. 79 | Civil Service |
| Ludwig von Mises | Representative democracy cannot subsist if a great part of the voters are on the government pay roll. If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for. | Bureaucracy | p. 81 | Civil Service |
| Ludwig von Mises | Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune. | Bureaucracy | p. 100 | Class Mobility |
| Ludwig von Mises | The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. | Bureaucracy | pp. 20-21 | Consumer |
| Ludwig von Mises | The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers. | Bureaucracy | p. 37 | Consumer |
| Ludwig von Mises | In public administration there is no connection between revenue and expenditure. | Bureaucracy | p. 47 | Deficits |
| Ludwig von Mises | The two pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget. | Bureaucracy | p. 41 | Deficits |
| Ludwig von Mises | Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort. | Bureaucracy | p. 121 | Democracy |
| Ludwig von Mises | Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people, that theirs is government for the people. | Bureaucracy | p. 43 | Dictatorship |
| Ludwig von Mises | Every dictator plans to rear, raise, feed, and train his fellow men as the breeder does his cattle. His aim is not to make the people happy but to bring them into a condition which renders him, the dictator, happy. He wants to domesticate them, to give them cattle status. The cattle breeder also is a benevolent despot. | Bureaucracy | p. 91 | Dictatorship |
| Ludwig von Mises | Under the division of labor, the structure of society rests on the shoulders of all men and women. | Bureaucracy | pp. 77-78 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | European totalitarianism is an upshot of bureaucracys preeminence in the field of education. The universities paved the way for the dictators. | Bureaucracy | p. 87 | Education |
| Ludwig von Mises | Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it. | Bureaucracy | p. 71 | Education |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous. | Bureaucracy | p. 84 | Farm Programs |
| Ludwig von Mises | The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. | Bureaucracy | p. 84 | Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | You do not increase the happiness of a man eager to attend a performance of Abies Irish Rose by forcing him to attend a perfect performance of Hamlet instead. You may deride his poor taste. But he alone is supreme in matters of his own satisfaction. | Bureaucracy | pp. 9091 | Happiness |