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Society Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.
- 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…
- 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…
- The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while…
- 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…
- Every change in conditions will make necessary some change in the use of resources, in the direction and kind of human activities, in habits and…
- Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum…
- 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…
- If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification…
- It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose…
- We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.... Unless we can make the philosophic foundations…
- 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…
- 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…
- A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for…
- No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
- Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve…
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