Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Abuse, Purpose, May

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

• The mischievous idea that all public needs should be satisfied by compulsory organization and that all the means that individuals are willing to devote to pubic purposes should be under the control of government, is wholly alien to the basic principles of a free society.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Government, Organization

• Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Discovery, Competition

• Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Agency, Purpose, Assembly

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "The Value of Freedom". Chapter 7: "Majority Rules", 1960.

• If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to serve.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Light, Democracy

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek (p. 107), 1960.

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