"Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental……" — Friedrich August von Hayek
"Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies."
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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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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
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You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a…
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
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Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom…
— Carl F. H. Henry
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and…
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light…
— John Mott
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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