Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKI am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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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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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
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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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And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
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[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
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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.
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If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
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