| Ludwig von Mises | The main and only concern of the Austrian economists was to contribute to the advancement of economics. They never tried to win the support of anybody by other means than by the convincing power developed in their books and articles. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 72 | Austrian economists |
| Ludwig von Mises | Those whom the world called the Austrian economists were, in the Austrian universities, somewhat reluctantly tolerated outsiders. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 56 | Austrian economists |
| Ludwig von Mises | The economist must never be a specialist. In dealing with any problem he must always fix his glance upon the whole system. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 157 | Economics |
| Ludwig von Mises | Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. They must reluctantly admit that they are subject to the laws of nature. But they reject the very notion of economic law . . . economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 155 | Economics |
| Ludwig von Mises | The unpopularity of economics is the result of its analysis of the effects of privileges. It is impossible to invalidate the economists demonstration that all privileges hurt the interests of the rest of the nation or at least a great part of it. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 58 | Economics |
| Ludwig von Mises | All those not familiar with economics (i.e., the immense majority) do not see any reason why they should not coerce other people by means of force to do what these people are not prepared to do of their own accord. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 75 | Economics |
| Ludwig von Mises | In all nations and in all periods of history, intellectual exploits were the work of a few men and were appreciated only by a small elite. The many looked upon these feats with hatred and disdain, at best with indifference. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 58 | Genius |
| Ludwig von Mises | On the market it is not mankind, the state, or the corporative unit that acts, but individual men and groups of men, and that their valuations and their actions are decisive, not those of abstract collectives. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 125 | Individualism |
| Ludwig von Mises | Life and reality are neither logical nor illogical; they are simply given. | Austrian Economics: An Anthology | p. 156 | Reason |