Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes About Planning

Quotes about: Planning

• [Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Regulation, Way, Planning

• It is rarely remembered now that socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. It began quite openly as a reaction against the liberalism of the French Revolution. The French writers who laid its foundation had no doubt that their ideas could be put into practice only by a strong dictatorial government. The first of modern planners, Saint-Simon, predicted that those who did not obey his proposed planning boards would be 'treated as cattle'.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Strong, Government, Practice

• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

• Competition means decentralized planning by many separate persons.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Entrepreneur, Competition

• The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Planning, Individual, States

  1944 The Road to Serfdom.

• There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Exercise, Boards, Planning

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 10 : Why The Worst Get On Top, 1940 - 1943.

• The effect of the people's agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Journey, People, Together

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 5 : Planning and Democracy, 1940 - 1943.

• 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.

• The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Dimensions, Serious, Planning

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

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