When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
Friedrich August von HayekSocial justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.
Friedrich August von HayekIt can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
Friedrich August von HayekIt is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.
Friedrich August von HayekI am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.
Friedrich August von Hayek