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The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Government, Evil, Unlimited
"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Postscript: Why I Am Not a Conservative, 1960.

To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Mean, Evil, Expansion

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.

Friedrich August von Hayek
War, Evil, May
"The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

Friedrich August von Hayek
Mean, Evil, Deception

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions for the preservation of such a society that we do not countenance envy, not sanction its demands by camouflaging it as social justice, but treat it, in the words of John Stuart Mill, as 'the most anti-social and evil of all passions.'

Friedrich August von Hayek
Passion, Evil, Envy
"The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek (p. 93), 1960.

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