Principles Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

15 Principles quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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Hayek’s economic and philosophical insights converge here, presenting fifteen statements that champion individual freedom, limited government, and the power of spontaneous order.

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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…

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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can…

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Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in 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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There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the…

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We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles…

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Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of…

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There is nothing in the basic principles of liberalism to make it a stationary creed; there are no hard-and-fast rules fixed once…

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The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing…

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Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based…

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There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends,…

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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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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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Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is…

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The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do…

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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

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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 the point…

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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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