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Got this at the bottom of the Maxim Institute's 'Real Issues' email:
"It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers. Yet nothing can have a more deadening effect on real participation by the citizens than if government, instead of merely providing the essential framework of spontaneous growth, becomes monolithic and takes charge of the provision for all needs, which can be provided for only by the common effort of many."
Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992)
"It is one of the greatest weaknesses of our time that we lack the patience and faith to build up voluntary organizations for purposes which we value highly, and immediately ask the government to bring about by coercion (or with means raised by coercion) anything that appears as desirable to large numbers. Yet nothing can have a more deadening effect on real participation by the citizens than if government, instead of merely providing the essential framework of spontaneous growth, becomes monolithic and takes charge of the provision for all needs, which can be provided for only by the common effort of many."
Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992)
posted by Michael at
1:49 PM
1 Comments:
Friedrich Hayek is one of last centuries greatest economic thinkers.
His book the Road to Serfdom is a great read.
He argues that state intervention 'socialism' will eventually lead to totalitarianism.
Thta's where I think this Labour government is heading.
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