This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKJustice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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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.
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It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
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If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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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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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term “social justice.
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The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.
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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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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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Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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