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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
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Outcomes Reaction Trends
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
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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Civilisation History Realising
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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Inseparable Liberty Responsibility
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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Done Mean Necessarily
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 curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
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Design Liberty Men
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Action Knowledge Mind
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
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 can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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Politics Practice Socialism
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
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 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
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Economics Historical Mean
$Friedrich August von Hayek Quote - There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.$

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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Boards Exercise Planning

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