“To the accepted Christian tradition that man must be free to follow his conscience in moral matters if his actions are to be of any merit, the economists added the further argument that he should be free to make full… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“Law in its ideal form might be described as a ‘once-and-for-all’ command that is directed to unknown people and that is abstracted from all… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“At least insofar as the rules providing for coercion are not aimed at me personally but are so framed as to apply equally to… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the best position… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.” — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“The basis of freedom as well are [sic] the restraints commonly accepted by the members of the group in which the rules of morals… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circumstances of time… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining it through… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type. The first… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Once government undertakes to determine the whole wage structure and is thereby forced to control employment and production, there will be a far greater… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“To the accepted Christian tradition that man must be free to follow his conscience in moral matters if his actions are to be of… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
