Quotes by : Friedrich A. Hayek

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

If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in....

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

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and....

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

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free....

Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading....

The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about....

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

The young are right if they have little confidence in the ideas which rule most of their elders. But....