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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes: Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.
         

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.


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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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