It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image