"If we wish to preserve a free society,……" — Friedrich August von Hayek
"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 for the use of coercion."
—
Friedrich August von Hayek
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
136 Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek has 136 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive…
-
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
-
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
-
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us…
-
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the…
-
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but…
-
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but…
-
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
-
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if…
-
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably…
-
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it…
-
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In…
See all 136 quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek »
More Coercion Quotes
This quote is filed under Coercion Quotes,
one of 138 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
-
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
-
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
-
The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
-
History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....…
— Ludwig von Mises
-
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
-
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary…
— Ayn Rand
-
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
— Milton Friedman
-
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
— Milton Friedman
See all 138 Coercion Quotes »