Hayek Quote by Vaclav Klaus

“In a passage often cited by Western conservatives and especially loved by American libertarians, the Austrian economist F. A. Hayek wrote in 1960: “The…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than sixty years…

— David Horowitz

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time…

— Julian Simon

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the…

— Allan Bloom

“Communists talked to the masses and urged violence, if necessary, to encompass their ends; the Socialists appealed to their own kind—to the intelligentsia, the…

— Robert L. Heilbroner

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of…

— Paul Krugman

.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

— Irving Kristol

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as…

— Anonymous

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned…

— Irving Kristol

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker