"The greatest danger to liberty today comes from……" — Friedrich August von Hayek
"The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good."
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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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Administrators need to shift from being controllers to enablers, so as to liberate the energies and talents of the teachers.
— Steve Denning
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To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the…
— Ken Robinson
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Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.
— Don Meyer
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense,…
— John Calvin
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I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college…
— Jack Handey
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As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents…
— Marcus J. Ranum
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Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces…
— Ray Ozzie
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Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
— David Perkins
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There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is…
— Unknown Author
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The definitive resolution of the UFO enigma will not come about unless and until the problem is subjected to open…
— Peter A. Sturrock
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Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and whats a taboo and whats not in terms of content,…
— Richard Serra
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