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The 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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK

Blight Centralization Proportion
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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Foundation Moral Politics
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
$Friedrich August von Hayek Quote - There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.$

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
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Boards Exercise Planning
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
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Done Mean Necessarily
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
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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Justice Umpires Views
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
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
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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Liberty Names People
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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Differences House Order Perfect
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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Country Desirable Measure Order Thinking
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
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
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Doing Good Liberty Opportunity
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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Advantage Freedom Principles
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
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Conservatism Conserves Good
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
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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Civilisation History Realising
In government, the scum rises to the top.
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Government Libertarian Scum
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.
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Abuse Desirable May Occasionally Purpose
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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Action Knowledge Mind
It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.
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Ideas Judging Philosophy
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 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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Essentials Liberty Wish
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.
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Economics Politics Socialist
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
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Inseparable Liberty Responsibility
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
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Input Thinking Time