The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change “orderly.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKHayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
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Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.
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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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[The] impersonal process of the market … can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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