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> [“Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means slavery, we have steadily moved in the direction of socialism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/although-we-had-been-warned-by-some-of-the-greatest-political/)

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## More by Friedrich Hayek

> [“What Tocqueville did not consider was how long such a government would remain in the hands of benevolent despots when it would be so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/what-tocqueville-did-not-consider-was-how-long-such-a-government/)

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> [“essa igualdade formal perante a lei conflita e é de fato incompatível com qualquer atividade do governo que vise a uma igualdade material ou…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/essa-igualdade-formal-perante-a-lei-conflita-e-de-fato-incompat-vel/)

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> [“Fundamentally, in a system in which the knowledge of the relevant facts is dispersed among many people, prices can act to coordinate the separate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/fundamentally-in-a-system-in-which-the-knowledge-of-the-relevant/)

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> [“a mais importante transformação que um controle governamental amplo produz é de ordem psicológica, é uma alteração no caráter do povo.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/a-mais-importante-transforma-o-que-um-controle-governamental-amplo/)

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> [“Although we had been warned by some of the greatest political thinkers of the nineteenth century, by Tocqueville and Lord Acton, that socialism means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/although-we-had-been-warned-by-some-of-the-greatest-political/)

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> [“It is certainly tragic to see the failure of the most meritorious efforts of parents to bring up their children, of young men to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/it-is-certainly-tragic-to-see-the-failure-of-the-most-meritorious/)

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> [“To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind...is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/to-assume-all-the-knowledge-to-be-given-to-a-single-mind-is-to/)

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> [“É muito significativo e característico o fato de socialistas (e nazistas) terem sempre protestado contra a justiça “?meramente” formal, opondose a um Direito que…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/muito-significativo-e-caracter-stico-o-fato-de-socialistas-e-nazistas/)

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> [“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/liberty-not-only-means-that-the-individual-has-both-the-opportunity-2/)

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> [“To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behaviour as individuals within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/to-act-on-behalf-of-a-group-seems-to-free-people-of-many-of-the-moral/)

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> [“Only if we understand why and how certain kinds of economic controls tend to paralyze the driving forces of a free society, and which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/only-if-we-understand-why-and-how-certain-kinds-of-economic-controls/)

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> [“The fact that German anti-Semitism and anticapitalism spring from the same root is of great importance for the understanding of what has happened there,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/the-fact-that-german-anti-semitism-and-anticapitalism-spring-from-the/)

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> [“But what socialists seriously contemplate the equal division of existing capital resources among the people of the world?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/but-what-socialists-seriously-contemplate-the-equal-division-of/)

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> [“In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-hayek/in-any-society-freedom-of-thought-will-probably-be-of-direct-2/)

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