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«Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek | About: Voting | Keywords: dependence, tyrant, voting
«If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.»
«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 object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion»
«We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek | Keywords: that much
«From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.»
«There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek | About: Equality | Keywords: attempting
«The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek | About: Choice | Keywords: good will, partly, shares
«We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.»
«Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order»

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