To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong” beliefs.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.
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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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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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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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It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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Justice, 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.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization would lead straight to the abhorred tyranny.
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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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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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