“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.” MenMayImportantUseWould BeUsedFreedomMillionsPossibilityParticularExerciseFunctionImportanceMajorityGrantsOne ManBeneficialBeing Free Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.” IfsMenRealPhilosophyUseDifferencesPrinciplesTreeConditionsHe ManFunctionPhilosophicalThis LifeGrassAdaptedBasic PrinciplesTree Of LifeOld Trees Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi