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Primacy of the individual over the collective
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"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable."
menu_book The Constitution of Liberty
View Full Quote"It is therefore the inhabitants of countries who allow themselves to be coerced who are unnatural, since freedom is their natural state; and their slavery is born of their own fault, not of any lack of courage, but rather of some scorn of their natural condition and some unaccountable failure of good sense."
menu_book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
View Full Quote"There is no standard of greater or lesser satisfaction other than individual judgments of value, different for various people and for the same people at various times. What makes a man feel uneasy and less uneasy is established by him from the standard of his own will and judgment, from his personal and subjective valuation. Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier."
menu_book Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
View Full Quote"There are indeed only two possible visions of society and its organization: a liberal vision and a constructivist one."
menu_book Libéralisme
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Democracy in America
A profound analysis of American democratic society and its implications for the future of democracy, exploring the nature of equality, individualis...
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Written around 1549 by the young French magistrate Étienne de La Boétie and first published posthumously in 1576, this founding text of libertarian...
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A collection of Hayek's essays and lectures from the 1930s and 1940s, including 'Individualism: True and False' and 'The Use of Knowledge in Societ...
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A systematic and uncompromising defence of classical liberalism, arguing that all social questions resolve into one fundamental choice between a li...
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