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Such 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…
- Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
- Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what…
- 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…
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