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Majority Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

10 Majority quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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If you’re curious about Hayek’s take on the power of the crowd, this brief set of ten quotes gives you a clear window. He sketches the tension between individual liberty and the pull of the many, offering food for thought without overwhelming you.

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The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial…

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It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates…

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By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond…

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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always…

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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process…

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The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal…

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It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize…

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

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The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and…

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It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness…

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

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The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the…

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The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of…

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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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[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most…

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends…

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The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in…

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

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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 the essential…

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