Friedrich August von Hayek Quotes

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: economist
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: May 8, 1899 - March 23, 1992

Topics

KnowledgePowerSocietyBeliefShape

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

Jo Brand

LifeEffortWayJustKidsConscious

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

Roger Daltrey

VoiceStandYouUnderstandFirst

You hear a lot of scientists say the same thing. It doesn't have to be a big thing because the thing about being a scientist is even the little things are big things to us.

Roderick MacKinnon

Little ThingsYouSaySameBigUs

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

ThinkingMeanWordTheologyMost

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Martin Rees

StartThinkNowYearsDifferentEra

This thing happened where I noticed anytime I got together with four friends or more, the conversation goes to food.

Lisa Lampanelli

FoodTogetherFriendsConversation

A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There's nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you've picked up your first one, you'll never stop buying them - providing you can pay for it.

Jason Statham

BetterYouStopTrueNothingNever

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Josh Homme

MusicPeopleSafetyThinkYouSafe

Everyone I dated was gay.

Debbie Reynolds

GayEveryoneDated

I'm not a particularly cerebral writer. I unabashedly go for the belly.

Christopher Buckley

GoWriterBellyCerebralUnabashedly

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

Anthony McCarten

ChangeChange The WorldWordsWorld

Coming from where I came from, the Midwest, in the era I was born, the '30s, movies were glorious fun - Bette Davis dying or whatever. But whatever they were, they were not serious.

William Goldman

FunBornSeriousMoviesDyingWhere

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