Friedrich A. Hayek Quotes

#1. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.

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#2. (Oxford: Clarendon

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#3. Law in its ideal form might be described as a 'once-and-for-all' command that is directed to unknown people and that is abstracted from all particular circumstances of time and place and refers only to such conditions as may occur anywhere and at any time.

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#4. Freedom is order through law.

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#5. Our necessary ignorance of so much means that we have to deal largely with probabilities and chances

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#6. At least insofar as the rules providing for coercion are not aimed at me personally but are so framed as to apply equally to all people in similar circumstances, they are no different from any of the natural obstacles that affect my plans.

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#7. What has made men good is neither nature nor reason but tradition.

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#8. Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative does not prove by its effect that it is better.

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#9. The mind can never foresee its own advance

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#10. The very conception of such a completion of the task of science is a contradction in terms. The quest of science is, therefore, by its nature a never-ending task in which every step ahead with necessity creates new problems.

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