Quotation of the Day…

… is from page 144 of the first volume (“Rules and Order,” 1973) of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty:

The idea that the aim of government is the satisfaction of all particular wishes held by a sufficiently large number, without any limitation on the means which the representative body may use for this purpose, must lead to a condition of society in which all the particular actions are commanded in accordance with a detailed plan agreed upon through bargaining within a majority and then imposed on all as the ‘common aim’ to be realized.

This enforced conformity ...