If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we rec

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion. – Friedrich August von Hayek

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Society
category

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual. – Friedrich Schiller

Category:
Society

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Category:
Society

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do now. – Will Rogers

Category:
Society

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. – Salman Rushdie

Category:
Society

Random Quotes

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Life

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. – Ang Lee

Category:
movies

We dont appreciate what we have until its gone. Freedom is like that. Its like air. When you have it, you dont notice it. – Boris Yeltsin

Category:
Freedom

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the persons life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the persons life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off theyll be. – Allan Houston

Category:
Leadership