Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes & Sayings

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28 most famous Friedrich August von Hayek quotes and sayings (economist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“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.”
“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.”
Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes
“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.”

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