| Ludwig von Mises | All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. | Socialism | p. 97 | Action |
| Ludwig von Mises | The much abused shopkeepers have abolished slavery and serfdom, made woman the companion of man with equal rights, proclaimed equality before the law and freedom of thought and opinion, declared war on war, abolished torture, and mitigated the cruelty of punishment. What cultural force can boast of similar achievements? | Socialism | p. 398 | Bourgeoisie |
| Ludwig von Mises | Capital does not reproduce itself. | Socialism | p. 177 | Capital |
| Ludwig von Mises | The word Capitalism expresses, for our age, the sum of all evil. Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. | Socialism | p. 15 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism. | Socialism | p. 286 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning. | Socialism | p. 335 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for. | Socialism | p. 405 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary, works on the emotions, tries to violate logical considerations by rousing a sense of personal interest and to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts. | Socialism | p. 460 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The great mass of people are incapable of realizing that in economic life nothing is permanent except change. They regard the existing state of affairs as eternal; as it has been so shall it always be. | Socialism | p. 188 | Change |
| Ludwig von Mises | Since the third century Christianity has always served simultaneously those who supported the social order and those who wished to overthrow it. . . . It is the same today: Christianity fights both for and against Socialism. | Socialism | p. 378 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Christian Socialism is none the less Socialism. | Socialism | p. 382 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Christianity has acquiesced in slavery and polygamy, has practically canonized war, has, in the name of the Lord, burnt heretics and devastated countries. | Socialism | pp. 397-98 | Christianity |
| Ludwig von Mises | Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest. | Socialism | p. 160 | Civil Service |
| Ludwig von Mises | The interventionist policy provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society. | Socialism | p. 457 | Civil Service |
| Ludwig von Mises | Civilization is a product of leisure and the peace of mind that only the division of labour can make possible. | Socialism | p. 271 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | For society is nothing but collaboration. | Socialism | p. 281 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation. | Socialism | p. 291 | Civilization |
| Ludwig von Mises | Several generations of economic policy which was nearly liberal have enormously increased the wealth of the world. | Socialism | p. 13 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | For Liberalism has never pretended to be more than a philosophy of earthly life. What it teaches is concerned only with earthly action and desistance from action. It has never claimed to exhaust the Last or Greatest Secret of Man. | Socialism | p. 37 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Liberalism champions private property in the means of production because it expects a higher standard of living from such an economic organization, not because it wishes to help the owners. | Socialism | p. 46 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | That Liberalism aims at the protection of property and that it rejects war are two expressions of one and the same principle. | Socialism | p. 59 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The only task of the strictly Liberal state is to secure life and property against attacks both from external and internal foes. | Socialism | p. 133 | Classical Liberalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail. | Socialism | p. 263 | Coercion |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction. | Socialism | p. 285 | Competition |
| Ludwig von Mises | Class consciousness, created by the ideology of the class conflict, is the essence of the struggle, and not vice versa. The idea created the class, not the class the idea. | Socialism | p. 306 | Conflict |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is really no essential difference between the unlimited power of the democratic state and the unlimited power of the autocrat. | Socialism | pp. 64-65 | Constitutional Government |
| Ludwig von Mises | True, the entrepreneur is free to give full rein to his whims, to dismiss workers off hand, to cling stubbornly to antiquated processes, deliberately to choose unsuitable methods of production and to allow himself to be guided by motives which conflict with the demands of consumers. But when and in so far as he does this he must pay for it. | Socialism | p. 401 | Discrimination |
| Ludwig von Mises | Every expansion of the personal division of labor brings advantages to all who take part in it. | Socialism | p. 261 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | 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. | Socialism | p. 261 | Division of Labor |
| Ludwig von Mises | Originally confined to the narrowest circles of people, to immediate neighbors, the division of labor gradually becomes more general until eventually it includes all mankind. | Socialism | p. 279 | Division of Labor |