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Means 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…
- 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…
- To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
- 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…
- Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences…
- It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge…
- 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…
- 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…
- Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
- Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.…
- 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…
- Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the…
- 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…
- This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have…
- 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…
More Means Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange