The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law. — 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. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“The case for individual freedom rests chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — 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
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment… — 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
At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an… — 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