It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned and centrally administered economy, so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, has been discredited.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.