Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKNobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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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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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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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.
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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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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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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
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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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To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
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The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.
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…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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Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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That 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.
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Liberty”’.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
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