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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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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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Done Economic Planning
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
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Politics Practice Socialism
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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Economics Politics Socialist
[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
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Action Knowledge Mind
Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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Capitalism Employment Possibility
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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Inseparable Liberty Responsibility
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
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There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Boards Exercise Planning
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort… then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Creative Effort Monopoly Patterns
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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Democracy Politics Power
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 I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.
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Philosophy Prejudice Psychology
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
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
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Essentials Liberty Wish

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