Friedrich August von Hayek Famous Quotes



"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude."

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


Friedrich August von Hayek Quotations






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You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
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Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.
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May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead.
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