We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.
Friedrich August von HayekThe Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.
Friedrich August von HayekA claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Friedrich August von HayekThe social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables.
Friedrich August von Hayek... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
Friedrich August von Hayek