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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes: We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
         

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.


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The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.



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If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.



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There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.



'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.



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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.



[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.

[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.



In government, the scum rises to the top.

In government, the scum rises to the top.



Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.



The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.



It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.

It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.





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As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.



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They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.



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I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can do both I'll be happy.




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