It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. - Friedrich August Von Hayek
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek
Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts. - Friedrich August Von Hayek
Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be s… - Friedrich August Von Hayek
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be s…
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. - Friedrich August Von Hayek
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessar… - Friedrich August Von Hayek
Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessar…
In government, the scum rises to the top. - Friedrich August Von Hayek
In government, the scum rises to the top.
[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken … - Friedrich August Von Hayek
[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken …
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception. - Friedrich August Von Hayek
The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his… - Friedrich August Von Hayek
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his…
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