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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong” beliefs.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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Government Pie War
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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Advance Foresee Mind Own
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
Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known substitute for the market order could sustain the current population of the world.
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Order Population Race
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.
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Book Country New People Two
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Economics Historical Mean
…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
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.
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Essence Law People
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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Evil Government Unlimited
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.
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Individual Problem Use
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
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
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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Continuing Errors Men
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the “wrong” beliefs.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Faith Government Thinking
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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Danger Doubt Eye
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.
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Creative Effort Monopoly Patterns