Freedom Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society

— Friedrich August von Hayek

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

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

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

The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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

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

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

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

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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