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Roger Scruton recalls the exact moment he became a conservative during the 1968 Paris riots: “When I looked down the street and saw all these rowdy students throwing stones at policemen, I just said to myself, ‘Whatever they believe, I believe the opposite.’”
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Roger Scruton on why so many intellectuals are drawn to the left & what it means to be an intellectual conservative: “If you start thinking about politics in an intellectual way, you are likely to be on the left, because that provides a systematic solution, an answer to the questions, puts it all in a system, and also gives you a rather dignified and self-congratulatory place in the system. But if you think a bit harder and longer about it, you’ll move back to what you would have been if you had never thought at all. That’s my view of what an intellectual conservative is: it’s someone who articulates the real reasons for not having reasons.”
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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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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 why politicians love Keynesian economics: “Politicians love the argument that if you outspend your income and run a deficit, you’re doing good to the people in general.” “They don’t want to hear anything more than to be told that irresponsible spending is beneficial.”
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Milton Friedman: “The problem with government is the absence of any mechanism for recognizing errors. What the private system abounds in is survival of the fittest.” “What the governmental system abounds in is expansion of the mistakes. There is no mechanism for eliminating governmental agencies which are no longer needed or have behaved perversely.”
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Milton Friedman brilliantly sums up Hayek’s book “The Road to Serfdom”
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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.”
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Jordan Peterson explains Hayek’s “knowledge problem” argument against central planning
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