Humans Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

16 Humans quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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Hayek’s observations read like a quiet dialogue with the market and the individual. In these 16 passages he balances respect for spontaneous order with a cautionary eye on over‑centralized control.

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The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

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Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

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No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

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It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program…

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The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources…

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Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent…

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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…

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The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ,…

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Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any…

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If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay…

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I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the…

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Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities,…

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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…

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It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend…

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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…

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Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the…

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The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

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