“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… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“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… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“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… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type. The first… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“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