Democratic Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek Download Open image “Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.” — Friedrich August von Hayek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democratic Democratic government Dictator Government Lacking Liberalism Libertarian Politics
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...] Personally I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest. — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit. — Jaiprakash Gaur Copy Share Image
He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make the philosophic… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that. — Ali Abdullah Saleh Copy Share Image
If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm going to do everything I can to get myself elected, but that's not enough. I'm going to try to help move the Senate… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
While not widely reported, our victories in Iraq are plentiful. National elections, a democratic parliament and the drafting of a constitution are just some… — Paul Gillmor Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image