Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
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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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It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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…the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
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It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
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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 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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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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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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