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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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 HAYEK

Justice Liberty Men
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
Without a theory the facts are silent.
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Facts Silent Theory
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
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Economics Individual Men
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
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
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
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Politics Practice Socialism
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately “create the future of mankind.” This is the final conclusion of the forty years which I have now devoted to the study of these problems
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Finals Mankind Study Years
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
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Democracy Politics Power
The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.
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Important Majority Men
This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
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Done Economic Planning
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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Government Pie 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
[The] impersonal process of the market … can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
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Justice Process Unjust
Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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Coercion Liberty Men
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano’s Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Book Country New People Two
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
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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Done Mean Necessarily
…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
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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Greatest Justice Men Services Writer
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
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
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.
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Competition Deception Tasks
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Action Knowledge Mind
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