Friedrich A. Hayek

Quotes

• “The great misfortune of our generation is that the direction which by the amazing progress of the natural sciences has b...”
• “There will always exist inequalities which will appear unjust to those who suffer from them, disappointments which will ...”
• “If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circ...”
• “It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to t...”
• “The disdain of profit is due to ignorance, and to an attitude that we may if we wish admire in the ascetic who has chose...”
• “Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control...”
• “What is called economic power, while it can be an instrument of coercion, is in the hands of private individuals never e...”
• “The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that the...”
• “It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that ...”
• “To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entir...”
• “It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use ...”
• “I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the ...”
• “Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will...”
• “Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the...”
• “The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In colle...”
• “Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules...”
• “when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of fre...”
• “Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.”