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One Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- 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…
- 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…
- Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.
- One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one…
- 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 history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back one's…
- It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction…
- 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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