I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term “social justice.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKBy 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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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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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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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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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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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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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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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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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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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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The 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.
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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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If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort… then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.
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