Friedrich August Von Hayek Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Friedrich August Von Hayek
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“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
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“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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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“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.”
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“Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.”
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“Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.”
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“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.”
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