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We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.


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



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'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.



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



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



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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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