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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Friedrich August von Hayek

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Competition Deception Tasks
…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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Achievement Ignorance Liberty
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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Essence Law People
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
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Freedom Justice Mirages
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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Advantage Freedom Principles
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody’s permission or to obey anybody’s orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.
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Men Order Responsibility
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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Democracy Light Mean
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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Attitude Growth Order
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Inseparable Liberty Responsibility
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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Blight Centralization Proportion
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 Generation Government Our
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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Foundation Moral Politics
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
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Justice Umpires Views
[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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Giving Surrender Taken Up
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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Input Thinking Time

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