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Us Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
- ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent…
- Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
- 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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