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"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
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"As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself."
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"Life is full of choices. Your choice is your true freedom."
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"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds."
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"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
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"The one and only true freedom we ALL possess is what we think, and our intentions govern what we think."
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Explore more quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek
"To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm."
Power
"Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?"
Economy
"If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this."
People
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers."
Equality
"The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences."
Science
"It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide."
Science
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."
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"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."
Science
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion."
Society
"I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation."
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