Mises University Quotes & Sayings

Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han! — Liu Bei

The future of our nation is dependent on the future of our families. — James Lankford

Let him get stoned, since everybody must. — Jonathan Lethem

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten. — Robert Holdstock

At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not only economics, but for ethics, geometry, and optics, as well. This bizarre claim turned a serious scholar and profound thinker into a comical cult figure, a sort of Euro Kim Il Sung. — Tom G. Palmer

I don't know the beginnings and the end of all things? But apparently most people do. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Dostoevsky's work contains no evolution of thought, not even within the boundaries of the consciousness of individual heroes (with very rare exceptions). Semantic material is always given to the hero's consciousness all at once and in its entirety, and given not as individual thoughts and propositions but as the semantic orientations of whole human beings, as voices; it remains only to make a choice among them. — Mikhail Bakhtin

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong

It's just that unwinding makes slavery look good. It's always the lesser of two evils. — Neal Shusterman