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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

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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.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

Topics: Choose Complete Dependence Fact Freedom Generation Government Made Millions Necessarily Our Our Generation Perhaps Secure Seen Themselves Tyrant Understand Voting

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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.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

Topics: Coercion Essential Free Free Society Justification Object Particular Preserve Recognize Society Sufficient Use Wish

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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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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

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I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

Topics: Claim Equality Government Material Met Only Position Powers Totalitarian

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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Economist

Born: May 8th, 1899

Died: March 23rd, 1992

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