The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Ever read any [Friedrich] Hayek? He's great. The Road To Serfdom is like... I'm not a big political-science reader, but I actually… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The Road To Serfdom is about capitalism. That’s why on the side of that road you’ll find me, in a kiosk, selling… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance for a small minority. But this does not mean that… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often -… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
.. the publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Those concessions might also explain why Keynes responded to the book as he did, a response that might surprise later generations. Keynes… — Bruce Caldwell Copy Share Image
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image