Friedrich Hayek Quote

Popular Topics:

People | Life | Time | Man | Love | Work | Music | Mind | Women | Money | War | Truth | Power | Art | Government | Nature | Business | History | Family | Age | Society | Success
» More Popular Topics

Popular Authors:

Anthony Robbins | Tennessee Williams | Steve Jobs | Ramakrishna | Henry Fielding | Albert Schweitzer | Carl Sandburg | Stephen Hawking | Karl Kraus | Walt Disney | Arthur C. Clarke
» More Popular Authors

Popular Occupations:

Actors | Politicians | Philosophers | Musicians | Comedians | Scientists | Artists | Lawyers
» More Popular Occupations
Friedrich Hayek
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr

Friedrich Hayek

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”

- Friedrich Hayek

Source/Notes: Law, Legislation and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economy (first published in 1982), p. 83, "'Social' or Distributive Justice"
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“"Emergencies" have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”

- Friedrich Hayek

Source/Notes: Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. 2: The Mirage of Social Justice (1976)
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”

- Friedrich Hayek

Source/Notes: The Constitution of Liberty (1960)
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”

- Friedrich Hayek

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.”

- Friedrich Hayek

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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.”

- Friedrich Hayek

Source/Notes: New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and the History of Ideas (1978 edition), Taylor & Francis - ISBN: 9780710087249
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

Source/Notes: The Road to Serfdom (1965 edition)
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.”

- Friedrich Hayek

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“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

Source/Notes: Individualism and Economic Order (1963 edition), Ludwig von Mises Institute - ISBN: 9781610161442
View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr
Friedrich Hayek

“It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.”

- Friedrich Hayek

View as Image  Share on Facebook  Share on Twitter  Share on Pintrest  Share on Tumblr