Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of… — 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