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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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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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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.
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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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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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The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda…are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.
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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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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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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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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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The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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