Quotes by : Friedrich A. Hayek

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing....

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows....

Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently, that....

The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade....

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain....

It seems to be almost a law of human nature, that it is easier for people to agree on a negative programme,....

The mind can never foresee its own advance

In the first instance, it is probably true that in general the higher the education and intelligence....

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes....

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