Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Circles, Effort

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 21 : The Monetary Framework, 1960.

• The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Effort, Unity, May

  "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (The Road to Serfdom)". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, reason.com. 1944.

• ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Individual Effort, Competition, Arbitrary

• Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Health, Men, Civilization

  "The Counter-Revolution of Science". Book by Friedrich Hayek, "Purposive" Social Formations (ch. 8, page 84), 1952.

• It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Independent, Effort, Want

• It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Mean, Individual Effort

• Independence of mind or strength of character is rarely found among those who cannot be confident that they will make their way by their own effort.... Indeed, when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the greatest threat to it.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Character, Effort, Mind

• If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Effort, Creative, Patterns

  "Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, "What is 'Social'? - What Does it Mean" (ch. 17), 1967.

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