| Ludwig von Mises | The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living. | Human Action | p. 562; p. 565 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses. | Liberty and Property | p. 9 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to a height never dreamed of in earlier ages. It has made accessible to millions of people enjoyments which a few generations ago were only within the reach of a small elite. | The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality | p. 49 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business. | Human Action | p. 617; p. 622 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Many pioneers of these industrial changes, it is true, became rich. But they acquired their wealth by supplying the public with motor cars, airplanes, radio sets, refrigerators, moving and talking pictures, and variety of less spectacular but no less useful innovations. These new products were certainly not an achievement of offices and bureaucrats. | Omnipotent Government | pp. ixx | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The development of capitalism consists in everyone having the right to serve the consumer better and/or more cheaply. | Economic Policy | p. 5 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way. | Economic Policy | p. 13 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods. | Planned Chaos | p. 15 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers. | On the Manipulation of Money and Credit | p. 176 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually. | On the Manipulation of Money and Credit | p. 178 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Grumblers may blame Western civilization for its materialism and may assert that it gratified nobody but a small class of rugged exploiters. But their laments cannot wipe out the facts. Millions of mothers have been made happier by the drop in infant mortality. Famines have disappeared and epidemics have been curbed. | Theory and History | p. 334 | Capitalism |
| 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 gave the world what it needed, a higher standard of living for a steadily increasing number of people. | Human Action | pp. 860-61; p. 864 | Capitalism |
| 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 market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wrens epitaph in St. Pauls: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice. [If you seek his monument, look around.] | Human Action | p. 850; p. 854 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | All the talk about the so-called unspeakable horror of early capitalism can be refuted by a single statistic: precisely in these years in which British capitalism developed, precisely in the age called the Industrial Revolution in England, in the years from 1760 to 1830, precisely in those years the population of England doubled. | Economic Policy | p. 7 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The market economycapitalismis a social system of consumers supremacy. | Money, Method, and the Market Process | p. 233 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. | Money, Method, and the Market Process | p. 242 | Capitalism |
| Ludwig von Mises | The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution. | Planned Chaos | p. 28 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism. | The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality | pp. 6465 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| 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 | If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. | Planning for Freedom | p. 44 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. | Planning for Freedom | p. 218 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism: is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings. | Human Action | p. 676; p. 680 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| 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 salesman thanks the customer for patronizing his shop and asks him to come again. But the socialists say: Be grateful to Hitler, render thanks to Stalin; be nice and submissive, then the great man will be kind to you later too. | Omnipotent Government | p. 53 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |
| Ludwig von Mises | There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way. | Liberalism | p. 79 | Capitalism vs. Socialism |