Friedrich Hayek Quotes

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.

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

Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

There is no other planning for freedom and general welfare than to let the market system work.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

A single currency means a single government, and that single government would be the government whose policies determined every aspect of economic life.

...for the welfare of the whole world and the new world order.

A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.

The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.

Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.

Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy. And an authority directing the whole economic system of the country would be the most powerful monopolist conceivable…it would have complete power to decide what we are to be given and on what terms. It would not only decide what commodities and services were to be available and in what quantities; it would be able to direct their distributions between persons to any degree it liked.

The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may be witnessing," Fukuyama argued, "the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The future will be devoted not to great exhilarating struggles over ideas but rather to resolving mundane economic and technical problems. And, he concluded rather sadly, it will all be rather boring.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.