Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies it is often closer to socialism than true liberalism
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The mind can never foresee its own advance.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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When a professional student of social affairs writes a political book, his first duty is plainly to say so. This is a political book.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call ‘civilization’ rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Our morality itself is the result of a process of cultural selection. Those things survive which enable the species to multiply.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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