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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.
The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the old.
There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
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
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.
Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
Liberty'.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it.
Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.