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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKCapitalism created the possibility of employment.
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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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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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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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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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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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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
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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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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.
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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.
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