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4 sourced quotes by Friedrich Hayek on democracy & freedom, governance & administration, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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The mechanism by which the interaction of democratic decisions and their implementation by the experts often produces results which nobody has desired is a subject which would deserve much more careful attention than it usually receives.
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.
A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.