Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

We wanted to bring attention to the fact that we had so many deals taking place that we could have made change for the better for all people, and we felt that we would be a catalyst to bring this to attention to society.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

When Pearl Harbor was bombed, you know, there was a whole lot of buy-in to a national mobilization. And 25% of the economy was transformed in six months. And we're not calling for six months, we're saying 15 years. That's about what we've got. And probably all that we've got.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

It is purposeless to tell Negroes they should not be enraged when they should be. Indeed, they will be mentally healthier if they do not suppress rage, but vent it constructively and use its energy peacefully but forcefully to cripple the operations of an oppressive society. Civil disobedience can utilize the militance wasted in riots to seize clothes or groceries many do not even want.

We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.