F. A. Hayek Quotes
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Daily quotes from economist & Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) 🗽 More quotes: @MiltonFriedmanW, @DailySowell, @MileiSays
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Hayek was asked to leave “a statement for the future generations.” His response is brilliant: “Modern civilization which enables us to maintain 4 billion people was made possible by the institution of private property. It is only thanks to this institution that we achieved an extensive order far exceeding anybody’s knowledge.” “If you destroy that moral basis, which consists in the recognition of private property, we will destroy the sources which nourish present-day mankind, and create a catastrophe of starvation beyond anything mankind has yet experienced.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes448,393 views • 5 months ago
Hayek on Marxism vs economic reality: “Marxists can never understand the functioning of the market. They believe it’s the costs which determine prices.” “The truth is exactly the opposite: it’s prices which tell people how much cost they ought to involve. It is prices by which the knowledge of millions of people can be conveyed to others and serve as a guide to them.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes101,043 views • 1 month ago
Hayek: “The man who has learned a little science lacks the humility the real scientist gladly acquires.” “The typical intellectual believes everything must be explainable, but a scientist knows that a great many things are not. A good scientist is essentially a humble person.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes260,038 views • 5 months ago
Hayek on why freedom is essential for progress: “Whenever you have a community completely commanded by an authoritarian system, there is no evolution in a sense because better systems cannot prevail so long as the old system is maintained by force.” “Evolution is made possible by freedom. What you get in unfree systems is due to the fact that the emergence of the better has been prevented.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes13,818 views • 7 days ago
“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.” — Friedrich Hayek
F. A. Hayek Quotes408,970 views • 10 months ago
Jordan Peterson explains Hayek’s “knowledge problem” argument “The proposition that central planning will work is the proposition that you can substitute one expert mind for a million distributed expert minds.” “That’s obviously not the case, because each person is going to have knowledge that pertains to their locality that isn’t accessible to everyone. So it’s much better to let everyone make the decisions and sum them.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes75,580 views • 1 month ago
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JUST IN: Javier Milei cites Hayek and denounces socialism (Davos, 2026) “The Austrian School of Economics—from Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Kirzner, and Hoppe to Jesús Huerta de Soto—has demonstrated the impossibility of socialism, thereby dismantling ... a form of academic deafness that led to socialism and cost the world the lives of 150 million human beings, while those who managed to survive the terror did so in absurd poverty.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes130,685 views • 4 months ago
Hayek explains why social justice is a meaningless term: “Justice is an attribute of individual action. I can be just or unjust towards my fellow men.” “But the conception of a social justice—to expect a just result from an impersonal process which nobody can control—is meaningless and completely impossible.”
F. A. Hayek Quotes33,203 views • 1 month ago
