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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

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.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Equality, Law, People
"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 6: "Equality, Value and Merit", 1960.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom, Equality, Doe
"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, p. 79, 1960.

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

Friedrich August von Hayek
Equality, Government, Liberty
"Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.

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.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Determination, Mean, Equality
"The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

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