Friedrich August von Hayek Justice Quotations

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years. I have failed in this endeavour or rather, have reached the conclusion that, with reference to society of free men, the phrase has no meaning whatever.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.