Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK[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.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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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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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.
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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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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
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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] impersonal process of the market … can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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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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Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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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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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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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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