All Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
- With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to… All
- 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. Anti War
- The mind cannot foresee its own advance. Advance
- ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… Achievement
- All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… All
- The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who… Freedom
- The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the… Accepted
- Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by… Clarity
- What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. Able
- Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… All
- Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to… Activity
- The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… All
- The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators… Administrators
- There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. All
- We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a… Able
- The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which… Allowed
- Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one. Any
- Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use… Allow
- The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit According
- The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive… Achieved
- To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. Controlled
- Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the… Been
- Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… Any
- It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… Advanced
- By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most… Arbitrary
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