A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.