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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKCapitalism created the possibility of employment.
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He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
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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 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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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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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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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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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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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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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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Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.
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Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
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Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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