F. A. Hayek Quotes

“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.” — Friedrich Hayek

“It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress.” — Friedrich Hayek

“There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means a new form of servitude.” — Friedrich Hayek

Javier Milei, a staunch admirer of Hayek, delivers a blunt verdict on socialism “Socialism is always and everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries where it has been tried. It murdered over 100 million human beings.”

Many social scientists start out by assuming they can understand the entire society Hayek refutes this “unfounded” belief 👇

“Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.” — Friedrich Hayek

“The power that a millionaire has over me is much less than that of the smallest bureaucrat who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or work.” — Friedrich Hayek

Who fits Hayek’s description here?

“The promise of greater freedom has become one of the most effective weapons of socialist propaganda.” — Friedrich Hayek

Every American should read F.A. Hayek’s masterpiece, *The Road to Serfdom* The United States would benefit tremendously if that happened

“To make his theory more attractive, Keynes called it ‘The General Theory.’ In fact, he knew precisely that it was not a general theory. It was an argument to persuade the government in the 1930s to do particular things.” — Friedrich Hayek

Milton Friedman brilliantly sums up Hayek’s book “The Road to Serfdom”

“The essence of equality before the law is that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.” — Friedrich Hayek

“Only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve a result. The free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed ‘plan’ for further growth.” — Friedrich Hayek

“Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.” — Friedrich Hayek