Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes - Page 6

• It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Understanding, Progress, Acting

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 7 : Majority Rules, 1960.

  23 Copiar cita

• The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Progressive, Individual, Road To Serfdom

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Chapter 16: "Conclusion", 1944.

  10 Copiar cita

• Debemos hacer que la construcción de una sociedad libre vuelva a ser una aventura intelectual, una gesta de valor. A menos que consigamos que los fundamentos filosóficos de una sociedad libre vuelvan a ser una cuestión intelectual viva, y su puesta en práctica una tarea que desafíe el ingenio y la imaginación de nuestras mentes más vivas, las perspectivas de la libertad son ciertamente oscuras. Pero si podemos recuperar la fe en el poder de las ideas que caracterizó al liberalismo en sus mejores momentos, la batalla no está perdida.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Adventure, Dark, Issues

  "Hayek on a Society Based on Freedom" by Scott Horton, harpers.org. August 08, 2007.

  9 Copiar cita

• It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsabilidad, Hombres, Orden

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 14 : The Safeguards of Individual Liberty, 1960.

  8 Copiar cita

• Incluso la lucha por la igualdad mediante una economía dirigida sólo puede dar como resultado una desigualdad impuesta oficialmente, una determinación autoritaria del estatus de cada individuo en el nuevo orden jerárquico.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Determination, Mean, Equality

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

  20 Copiar cita

• It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taken, Essence, Ideas

  25 Copiar cita

• I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. That seems to be hopeless; once you see that you lose all hope.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  New York, Book, Two

  "The Road from Serfdom". Interview with Thomas Winslow Hazlett, reason.com. July 1992.

  10 Copiar cita

• The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Faith, Thinking, Government

  15 Copiar cita

• The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Order, Growth

  10 Copiar cita

• This is not a dispute about whether planning is to be done or not. It is a dispute as to whether planning is to be done centrally, by one authority for the whole economic system, or is to be divided among many individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Done, Planning, Economic

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society" by Friedrich Hayek, American Economic Review, September 1945.

  13 Copiar cita

• Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Health, Men, Civilization

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Purposive" Social Formations (ch. 8, page 84), 1952.

  7 Copiar cita

• [El proceso impersonal del mercado... no puede ser ni justo ni injusto, porque los resultados no se pretenden ni se prevén.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Justice, Unjust, Process

  7 Copiar cita

• La independencia de espíritu o la fuerza de carácter rara vez se encuentran entre aquellos que no pueden confiar en que harán su camino por su propio esfuerzo.... De hecho, cuando la seguridad se entiende en un sentido demasiado absoluto, la lucha general por ella, lejos de aumentar las posibilidades de libertad, se convierte en la mayor amenaza para ella.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Effort, Mind

  9 Copiar cita

• It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. Yet it is this support from the Left of the tendencies toward monopoly which make them so irresistible and the prospects of the future so dark.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Dark, Support, Democracy

  14 Copiar cita

• The economic freedom which is the prerequisite of any other freedom cannot be the freedom from economic care which the socialist promise us, and which can be obtained only by relieving the individual at the same time of the necessity and of the power of choice: it must be the freedom of economic activity which, with the right of choice, inevitably also carries the risk and the responsibility of that right

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, Choices, Risk

  9 Copiar cita

• To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Responsibility, People, Temptation

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

  13 Copiar cita

• Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ethics, Socialism, Made

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 11 : The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society, 1973.

  11 Copiar cita

• Nuestra sumisión a los principios generales es necesaria porque no podemos guiarnos en nuestra acción práctica por el pleno conocimiento y evaluación de las consecuencias. Mientras los hombres no sean omniscientes, la única manera de dar libertad al individuo es mediante reglas generales que delimiten la esfera en la que le corresponde decidir. No puede haber libertad si el gobierno no está limitado a tipos particulares de acción, sino que puede usar sus poderes de cualquier manera que sirva a fines particulares.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Men, Long

  11 Copiar cita

• There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Exercise, Men, Past

  7 Copiar cita

• From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Steps, Idealist, Road To Serfdom

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Chapter 4: "The 'Inevitability' of Planning", 1944.

  7 Copiar cita

• We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Correr, Largo, Gente

  "Individualism and Economic Order". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 'Free' Enterprise and Competitive Order, April 1947.

  13 Copiar cita

• Es cierto que las virtudes que ahora se estiman y practican menos -la independencia, la confianza en uno mismo y la disposición a correr riesgos, la disposición a respaldar la propia convicción frente a la mayoría y la disposición a la cooperación voluntaria con el prójimo- son esencialmente aquellas sobre las que descansa la sociedad individualista. El colectivismo no tiene nada que poner en su lugar, y en la medida en que ya ha destruido entonces ha dejado un vacío llenado por nada más que la demanda de obediencia y la compulsión del individuo a lo que se decide colectivamente que es bueno.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Risk, Independence

  15 Copiar cita

• We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Appreciate, Individuality

  53 Copiar cita

• En cualquier sociedad, la libertad de pensamiento tendrá probablemente una importancia directa para una pequeña minoría. Pero esto no significa que alguien sea competente, o deba tener poder, para seleccionar a aquellos a los que debe reservarse esta libertad.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Doe, Minorities

  6 Copiar cita

• Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Opportunity, Civilization

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

  6 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

John Maynard Keynes

Ludwig von Mises

Ludwig von Mises

Milton Friedman

Murray Rothbard

Adam Smith

Joseph A. Schumpeter

Carl Menger