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
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKThe 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.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
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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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In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.
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Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
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Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
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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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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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If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda…are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.
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Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term “social justice.
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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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