Any man who is only an economist is unlikely to be a good one.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

The confidence in the unlimited power of science is only too often based on a false belief that the scientific method consists in the application of a ready-made technique, or in imitating the form rather than the substance of scientific procedure, as if one needed only to follow some cooking recipes to solve all social problems. It sometimes almost seems as if the techniques of science were more easily learnt than the thinking that shows us what the problems are and how to approach them.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.