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

Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.

- 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

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.

- 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…

- 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 …

- Friedrich August Von Hayek

In government, the scum rises to the top.

- 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…

- 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.

- Friedrich August Von Hayek