We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. -Friedrich August Hayek

 

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.


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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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The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b.

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If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Friedrich August Hayek

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

Friedrich August Hayek

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.

Friedrich August Hayek