“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type. The first is that the deliberately organized state on the one side, and the individual on the other,… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“It may be admitted that, as far as scientific knowledge is concerned, a body of suitably chosen experts may be in the best position to command all the best knowledge available—though this is of course merely shifting the difficulty to the problem of selecting the experts. What I wish to point out is that, even assuming that this problem can… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share
“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.” — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The coercion which a government must still use … is reduced to a minimum and made as innocuous as possible by restraining it through known general rules, so that in most instances the individual need never be coerced unless he has placed himself in a position where he knows he will be coerced. Even where coercion is not avoidable, it… — 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 voluntary cooperation. Sooner or later, however, they tend to abuse that power and to suppress the freedom they had earlier secured in order to enforce their own presumedly greater wisdom and not to allow 'social institutions… — 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 is that the deliberately organized state on the one side, and the individual on the other, far from being regarded as the only realities, which all the intermediate formations and associations are to be deliberately suppressed,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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