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Facts Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- 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…
- To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly…
- 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…
- Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by…
- Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's…
- To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our…
- We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
- I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the…
- We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed…
- It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events…
- Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a…
- From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position,…
- Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to…
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