When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKTo 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.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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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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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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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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It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
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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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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
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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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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
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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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