F. A. Hayek Quotes
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A fascinating clip of Margaret Thatcher discussing & quoting Hayek during a 1996 speech in New York: “I remember very well when I was just in university reading for a science degree and Hayek, brilliant and perceptive as he was, published to an astonished world, The Road to Serfdom. He’d done the analysis. He knew where it would lead. And he turned out to be right.” “Hayek wrote: ‘How sharp a break with the whole evolution of Western civilisation the modern trend toward socialism means becomes clear if we consider it not merely against the background of the 19th century but in a longer historical perspective. We are rapidly abandoning not the views merely of Cobden and Bright, of Adam Smith and Hume, or even Locke and Milton, but one of the salient characteristics of Western civilisation as it has grown from the foundations laid by Christianity and the Greeks and the Romans. Not merely 19th- and 18th-century liberalism, but the basic individualism inherited by us from Erasmus and Montaigne, from Cicero and Tacitus, Pericles and Thucydides, is progressively relinquished.’”
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Friedrich Hayek: “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.”
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Javier Milei: “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.”
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Hayek on what true scientists understand that most intellectuals don’t: “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.”
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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.”
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Hayek explains why the term “social justice” is meaningless: “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.”
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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.”
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“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.” — Friedrich Hayek
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“There is basically no difference between socialism and fascism.” — Friedrich Hayek
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