[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.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEKWe shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
More Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
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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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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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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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Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.
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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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Without a theory the facts are silent.
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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
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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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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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In government, the scum rises to the top.
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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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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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Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
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Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
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