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Free Market Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- 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…
- ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because…
- Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning…
- Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man. It is money which in existing society opens an astounding range of…
- What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own…
- And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already…
- The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented…
- Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of…
- Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the…
More Free Market Quotes
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience… — Bono
- Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne
- I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system. — George W. Bush
- In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to… — Hugo Chavez
- Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free… — Ian Macfarlane
- The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are… — Ludwig von Mises
- Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians… — Murray Rothbard
- Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products… — Murray Rothbard
- Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. — Ludwig von Mises
- The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it. — Harry Browne