Top 100 Hayek Quotes
#1. The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.
Milton Friedman
#2. The most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.
Irving Kristol
#3. [I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten.
Paul Krugman
#4. Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#5. Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.
Vernon L. Smith
#6. I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.
Roselyn Sanchez
#7. I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'
Kim Kardashian
#8. It is truly amazing that, with much less neuroscientific knowledge available, Hayek's model comes closer, in some respects, to being neurophysiologically verifiable than those models developed 50 to 60 years after his.
Joaquin Fuster
#9. All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek ...
Margaret Thatcher
#10. Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".
Walter E. Williams
#11. One of the most original and most important ideas advanced by Hayek is the role of the 'division of knowledge' in economic society.
Fritz Machlup
#12. There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.
Woody Harrelson
#13. You won't be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.
Chris Rock
#14. Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies .
Gerald Edelman
#15. Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics.
Paul Krugman
#16. I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
Sofia Vergara
#17. It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing.
Jennifer Lopez
#18. The investigation of this problem - How is spontaneous order possible? - is sometimes referred to as the 'Hayek programme'.
Jon Elster
#19. I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.
Penelope Cruz
#20. The free-market economist Friedrich von Hayek once said that "without a theory, the facts are silent." But for Greenspan, with his theory, the facts became invisible.
Anonymous
#21. The main reasons for dwelling .. on Hayek's model is simply that it has certain properties, absent from most others, that conform exceptionally well to recent neurobiological evidence on memory and that make it particularly suited to the current discourse.
Joaquin Fuster
#22. During war the market system is more or less abandoned, as many parts of the economy are placed under central control. Hayek's fear was that socialists would want to continue such
Friedrich Hayek
#23. I have learned more from Hayek than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski - but not even excepting Russell.
Karl Popper
#24. If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.
Karl Rove
#25. No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek.
Herbert Simon
#26. Tied up with his dismissal of natural law is Hayek's continuous, and all-pervasive, attack on reason. Reason is his bete noire, and time and time again, from numerous and even contradictory standpoints, he opposes it.
Murray Rothbard
#27. There was a pretext, albeit slender, that might have prompted Hayek to reach out to Keynes: Keynes had succeeded Edgeworth as editor of the Economic Journal in 1911. But
Nicholas Wapshott
#28. The publication of Friedrich A. von Hayek's The Road to Serfdom in 1944 is rightly seen as the first shot in the intellectual battle that was to turn the tide in favor of conservatism i.e. non-statist liberalism .
E. J. Dionne
#29. Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.
Ronald Reagan
#30. F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.
Peter L. Berger
#31. My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.
Milton Friedman
#32. Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ...
Barry Ritholtz
#33. Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension . he is right . most of the time.
Edwin Boring
#34. When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.
Fritz Machlup
#35. In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.
Don Winslow
#36. You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.
Catherine Keener
#37. The source and root of all monetary evil [is] the government monopoly on the issue and control of money. - Friedrich Hayek
George Gilder
#38. Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
Paula Garces
#39. Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either pre- or postsynaptic change is contingent upon closely occurring events in both neurons taking part in the synapse.
Gerald Edelman
#40. The root and source of all monetary evil is the government's monopoly on money.
Friedrich A. Hayek
#41. One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.
Friedrich Hayek
#42. The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#43. Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#44. People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.
Salma Hayek
#46. No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
Salma Hayek
#47. Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#48. To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind ... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world.
Friedrich Hayek
#50. As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s ... You are more self-assured about that part. And that's the way it should be.
Salma Hayek
#51. There is only one ' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#52. 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
#53. [Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#54. There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.
Salma Hayek
#55. By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#56. It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#57. It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.
Salma Hayek
#58. There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Salma Hayek
#59. This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#60. If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.
Salma Hayek
#61. I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.
Salma Hayek
#62. It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.
Salma Hayek
#63. In fighting for women, we fight for humanity. We fight for the future
for everyone.
Salma Hayek
#64. It would clearly not be an improvement to build all houses exactly alike in order to create a perfect market for houses, and the same is true of most other fields where differences between the individual products prevent competition from ever being perfect.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#65. What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don't care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They're scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things.
Salma Hayek
#66. The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda ... are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#68. That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#69. The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Friedrich Hayek
#70. My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
Salma Hayek
#71. If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
Salma Hayek
#72. I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.
Salma Hayek
#73. I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
Salma Hayek
#74. I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
Salma Hayek
#75. Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
Salma Hayek
#76. If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.
Salma Hayek
#77. I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.
Friedrich Hayek
#78. Capitalism presumes that apart from our rational insight we possess a traditional endowment of morals, which has been tested by evolution but not designed by our intelligence.
Friedrich Hayek
#79. When I speak about freedom, it's about freedom of the spirit. Freedom of the spirit can't be represented by a body. It has to be art. It has to be all the colors. It has to be something that moves and has no boundaries.
Salma Hayek
#80. What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
Salma Hayek
#81. You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
Salma Hayek
#82. I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!
Salma Hayek
#83. We must not forget that ... monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#84. A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.
Salma Hayek
#85. The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#86. We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#87. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#88. From the point of view of fundamental human liberties there is little to choose between communism, socialism, and national socialism. They all are examples of the collectivist or totalitarian state ...
Friedrich Hayek
#89. By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#90. Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
Salma Hayek
#91. Whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#92. 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
#93. And who will deny that a world in which the wealthy are powerful is still a better world than one in which only the already powerful can acquire wealth?
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#94. For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
Salma Hayek
#95. I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
Salma Hayek
#96. The views of intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow ... What to the contemporary observer appears as the battle of conflicting interests has indeed often been described long before in a clash of ideas confined to narrow circles.
Friedrich Hayek
#97. You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat higher-fat foods, we're the ones with fewer wrinkles - it makes you wonder.
Salma Hayek
#98. 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.
Friedrich Hayek
#99. In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority.
Friedrich Hayek
#100. Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know.
Friedrich Hayek
