Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Individuals in very small groups are about the only thing that is free of the disease of the embedded growth obligation.

Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

No society can exist without some means for restraining individual rapacity.

The problem with a group is, the more people you add, the lower the average IQ.

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of Parliament, you will get chaos. But if you take 10,000 people who have never met before, they can co-operate and create amazing things.

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

But I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

Individuals are certainly interested, at times, in having their own way, and their own way may go contrary to the ways of others. But they are also interested, and chiefly interested upon the whole, in entering into the activities of others and taking part in conjoint and cooperative doings. Otherwise, no such thing as a community would be possible.

Enthusiasm is contagious, and the person who has it, under control, is generally welcome in any group of people.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.

If your only nice to the people that are nice to you, big deal; what do you want, a gist certificate? Everyone does that. And if you only say "hi" in the hall to the people that say hi to you, what are doing more than anyone else? Maybe you know people who are different when they're alone than when they're with their friends. they might say "hi" to you if your alone, but with a group they act like they've never seen you.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.