Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThat 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.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change “orderly.
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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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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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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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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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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.
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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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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
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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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[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.
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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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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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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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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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