| Ludwig von Mises | Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 77 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. | Liberalism | p. 44 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another. | Human Action | p. 817; p. 821 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern war is not a war of royal armies. It is a war of the peoples, a total war. It is a war of states which do not leave to their subjects any private sphere; they consider the whole population a part of the armed forces. Whoever does not fight must work for the support and equipment of the army. Army and people are one and the same. The citizens passionately participate in the war. For it is their state, their God, who fights. | Omnipotent Government | p. 104 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | What the incompatibility of war and capitalism really means is that war and high civilization are incompatible. | Human Action | p. 824; p. 828 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys. | Socialism | p. 59 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | All the materials needed for the conduct of a war must be provided by restriction of civilian consumption, by using up a part of the capital available and by working harder. The whole burden of warring falls upon the living generation. | Human Action | p. 228; p. 227 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | At the breakfast table of every citizen sits in wartime an invisible guest, as it were, a G.I. who shares the meal. In the citizens garage stays not only the family car but besidesinvisiblya tank or a plane. The important fact is that this G.I. needs more in food, clothing, and other things than he used to consume as a civilian and that military equipment wears out much quicker than civilian equipment. The costs of a modern war are enormous. | Defense, Controls, and Inflation | p. 331 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. | Human Action | p. 175; p. 176 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The existence of the armaments industries is a consequence of the warlike spirit, not its cause. | Human Action | p. 297; p. 300 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Victorious war is an evil even for the victor...peace is always better than war. | Liberalism | p. 24 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Wars, foreign and domestic (revolutions, civil wars), are more likely to be avoided the closer the division of labor binds men. | A Critique of Interventionism | p. 115 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The pacifistic line of argument goes too far if it simply denies that a people can gain by war. | Nation, State, and Economy | pp. 15253 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | War is the alternative to freedom of foreign investment as realized by the international capital market. | Human Action | p. 499; p. 502 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The statement that one mans boon is the other mans damage is valid with regard to robbery, war, and booty. The robbers plunder is the damage of the despoiled victim. But war and commerce are two different things. | Human Action | p. 662; p. 666 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of consistent application of these doctrines. | Human Action | p. 683; p. 687 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | What has transformed the limited war between royal armies into total war, the clash between peoples, is not technicalities of military art, but the substitution of the welfare state for the laissez-faire state. | Human Action | p. 820; p. 824 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Under laissez faire peaceful coexistence of a multitude of sovereign nations is possible. Under government control of business it is impossible. | Human Action | p. 820; p. 824 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | In the long run war and the preservation of the market economy are incompatible. Capitalism is essentially a scheme for peaceful nations. | Human Action | p. 824; p. 828 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The emergence of the international division of labor requires the total abolition of war. | Human Action | p. 827; p. 831 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling places in which their ancestors lived for centuries. Nobody can foretell what will happen in the next chapter of this endless struggle. This has little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. It is probable that scientists will discover some methods of defense against the atomic bomb. But this will not alter things, it will merely prolong for a short time the process of the complete destruction of civilization. | Human Action | p. 828; p. 832 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. | Human Action | p. 828; p. 832 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Ownership turns the fighting man into the economic man. Only the exclusion of private property can maintain the military character of the State. Only the warrior, who has no other occupation apart from war than preparation for war, is always ready for war. Men occupied in affairs may wage wars of defense but not long wars of conquest. | Socialism | pp. 220-21 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Within a world of free trade and democracy there are no incentives for war and conquest. | Omnipotent Government | p. 3 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Only in the case of primitive peoples does war lead to the selection of the stronger and more gifted, and that among civilized peoples it leads to a deterioration of the race by unfavorable selection. | Socialism | p. 290 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | The only means to lasting peace is to remove the root causes of war. | Omnipotent Government | p. 6 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | But what is needed for a satisfactory solution of the burning problem of international relations is neither a new office with more committees, secretaries, commissioners, reports, and regulations, nor a new body of armed executioners, but the radical overthrow of mentalities and domestic policies which must result in conflict. | Omnipotent Government | p. 6 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | Full freedom of movement of persons and goods, the most comprehensive protection of the property and freedom of each individual, removal of all state compulsion in the school system, in short, the most exact and complete application of the ideas of 1789, are the prerequisites of peaceful conditions. | Nation, State, and Economy | p. 96 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | If you want to abolish war, you must eliminate its causes. What is needed is to restrict government activities to the preservation of life, health, and private property, and thereby to safeguard the working of the market. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. | Omnipotent Government | p. 138 | War and Peace |
| Ludwig von Mises | If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. | Omnipotent Government | p. 15 | War and Peace |