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 Copy Share Image
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it,… — 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
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
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American… — 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 one's own conviction against a majority, and the willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests. Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic foundations of a free society once more a living intellectual issue, and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of our liveliest minds, the prospects of freedom are indeed dark. But if we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share
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
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