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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes - Page 2

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

"New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part 2: "Politics". Chapter 8: "Economic Freedom and Representative Government", pp. 110-111, 1978.

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

"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Front Cover Friedrich August Hayek, 1944.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Introduction, 1960.

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.

"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part III: "Freedom in the Welfare State". Chapter 17: "The Decline of Socialism and The Rise of the Welfare State", 1960.