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Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes: Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.
         

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.


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There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.



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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.



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Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.



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



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