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December 06, 2002
Friday
 
 
Samizdata slogan of the day
Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)  Slogans/quotations

Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is, in some sense, more than merely the aggregate of all individuals, their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that, in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded, it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind.
- F. A. Hayek

Comments

Not that I don't like Hayek and not that I don't like the content, but there is no way possible that an extended Hayek quotation can be considered a slogan.


Posted by Jim Muchow at December 7, 2002 08:26 PM

We use the term 'slogan' very loosely... so there is indeed a way


Posted by Perry de Havilland at December 8, 2002 11:29 AM