{"author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["determination","inequality "],"id":1220,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["knowledge","growth","plants "],"id":41283,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["design","men","economics "],"id":60394,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["will","known","beneficial "],"id":69287,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["best","problem","know "],"id":150859,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["freedom","generation","voting "],"id":173753,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["liberty","individual","always "],"id":211358,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["justice","face","satisfaction "],"id":226590,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["government","material "],"id":271928,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"},{"text":"This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.","author":"Friedrich August von Hayek","tags":["control","principles","achieve "],"id":361360,"author_id":"Friedrich+August+von+Hayek"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}