Quotes from Law, Legislation, and Liberty

By F.A. Hayek (1978)

• [Freud’s] basic aim of undoing the culturally acquired repressions and freeing the natural drives, has opened the most fatal attack on the basis of all civilization.#Quoted in Erwin Dekker, The Viennese Students of Civilization (2016)
  Norms
• The spontaneous character of the resulting order must therefore be distinguished from the spontaneous origin of the rules on which it rests, and it is possible that an order which would still have to be described as spontaneous rests on rules which are entirely the result of deliberate design.#
  Law
• So long as collaboration presupposes common purposes, people with different aims are necessarily enemies who may fight each other for the same means; only the introduction of barter made it possible for the different individuals to be of use to each other without agreeing on ultimate ends.#
  Economics
• In a sense it is even true that such a [market] system gives to those who already have. But this is its merit rather than its defect, because it is this feature which makes it worthwhile for everybody to direct his efforts not only towards immediate results but also towards the future increase of his capacity of rendering services to others.#
  Economics