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Quote from Friedrich August von Hayek,


"The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are."


By:

Friedrich August von Hayek (more quotes by Friedrich August von Hayek or books by/about Friedrich August von Hayek)


(1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974

Source:

"Why I Am Not a Conservative," postcript to The Constitution of Liberty [1960] (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972), p. 402

Categories:

Authority, Egalitarian, Individualism, Liberalism, Statism

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