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- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
- 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…
- Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.…
- The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are…
- That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly…
- Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for ideals whose realization…
- Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science."…
- A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the…
- The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect…
- We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.
- Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and…
- This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of…
- The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the…
- The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some…
- The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument…
- 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…
- I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of…
- Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons…
- No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
- Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the…
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle