Social Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

14 Social quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek

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When you're looking at how societies shape choices, Hayek's reflections offer a concise lens. This set gathers his thoughts on social dynamics, giving a quick taste of his perspective without overwhelming you.

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We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and…

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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal

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

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The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential…

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I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I…

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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…

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To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.…

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There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has…

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The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.…

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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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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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The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists…

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Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies…

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When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a…

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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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