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Position Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

10 Position quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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Hayek’s brief collection of ten sayings touches on how where we stand shapes both markets and minds. Though modest in length, the excerpts reveal his belief that personal and societal positions are rooted in freedom and knowledge, giving you a succinct taste of his liberal philosophy.

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are…

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Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

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Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects…

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To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit…

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The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many…

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From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in…

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I can have little patience with those who oppose ... the theory of evolution or what are called "mechanistic" explanations of the…

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It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like…

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By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the…

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Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

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Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them…

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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 to back…

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Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal…

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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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