"It can hardly be denied that such a……" — Friedrich August von Hayek
"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 which occur in the real world."
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Friedrich August von Hayek
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136 Quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In…
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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Sixty percent of our immigrants are admitted merely because they have relatives here. Many of these people are not immediate…
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.
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You're not supposed to be admitted to America if you're likely to be a charge on the public - if…
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear…
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