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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
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Assumptions Beliefs Facts Moral
Without a theory the facts are silent.
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Facts Silent Theory
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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Input Thinking Time
Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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Coercion Liberty Men
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
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Democracy Giving Government
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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Philosophy Prejudice Psychology
[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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Giving Surrender Taken Up
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
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May Opposites Promise
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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Altogether Evil May War
Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Historical Liberty War
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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Conservative Safe Watches
By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.
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Advanced Majority Point Views
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately “create the future of mankind.” This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems
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Finals Mankind Study Years
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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Powerful Wealth World
I 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.
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Freedom Justice Mirages
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum