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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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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Civilization Opportunity Pride
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 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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Faith Government Thinking
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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Effort Freedom Individual Mean
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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Government Pie War
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Economics Historical Mean
By 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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Advanced Majority Point Views
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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Done Foolish Much Stupid
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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Class Mean Movement Philosophy Working
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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Causes Limits Real
As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
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Altogether Evil May War
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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Cake Differences Membership
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
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Danger Doubt Eye
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
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Democracy Giving Government
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Action Knowledge Mind
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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Justice Liberty Men
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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Abuse Desirable May Occasionally Purpose
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
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Individual Problem Use
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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Doing Good Liberty Opportunity
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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Ideas Judging Philosophy
That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.
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Country Desirable Measure Order Thinking
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
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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Important Libertarian Liberty
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
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Liberty Names People
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
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Agency Assembly Purpose
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Advance Foresee Mind Own