Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
