Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity

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

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

To create conditions in which competition will be as effective as possible, to prevent fraud and deception, to break up monopolies- these tasks provide a wide and unquestioned field for state activity.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.