Quotes by : Friedrich August von Hayek

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has....

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

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular....

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman....

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society,....

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

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction....

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

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles -....