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Even the striving for equalit...

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

We know, in other words, the ...

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

He will therefore have to use...

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

If we wish to preserve a free...

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 Hayek 266 quotes

It is rather a problem of how...

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

The mind cannot foresee its o...

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

We know: of course, with rega...

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

If most people are not willin...

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

To act on the belief that we ...

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

The curious task of economics...

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

'Emergencies' have always bee...

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

I regard it in fact as the gr...

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

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It can hardly be denied that ...

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.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

We shall not grow wiser befor...

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

The progress of the natural s...

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

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The state itself becomes more...

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

From the fact that people are...

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

Nobody with open eyes can any...

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

I am certain, however, that n...

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

Liberty not only means that t...

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich Hayek 266 quotes

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