"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."
― Friedrich August von Hayek
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Freedom
― Friedrich August von Hayek
More From Friedrich August von Hayek
- "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
- "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."
- "This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects."
More In Freedom
- "The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life."― Major Taylor
- "I suppose there’s a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it’s the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom."― George Will