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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant.

September 17, 2009 by ab

Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek in “The Constitution of Liberty”

All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest. Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.

Notable & Quotable, Wall Street Journal

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