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A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
Without a theory the facts are silent.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
In government, the scum rises to the top.
Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.
Capitalism created the possibility of employment.
Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.
We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.
Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.
Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.
Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.
The great aim of the struggle for liberty has been equality before the law.
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'
The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.
The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.
Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit
Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.
The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
