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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Differences Moral Today
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
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Evil Government Unlimited
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
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
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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Economics Historical Mean
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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Law Liberty Struggle
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
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Democracy Light Mean
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
It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
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Blight Centralization Proportion
[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
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
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
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
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.
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Class Mean Movement Philosophy Working
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity
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Ends Individual Mean
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