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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKSocialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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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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Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
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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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Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.
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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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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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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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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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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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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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