Contributed by: filbert Monday, February 01 2010 @ 07:56 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
Although the professed aim of planning would be that man should cease to be a mere means, in fact–since it would be impossible to take account in the plan of individual likes and dislikes–the individual would more than ever become a mere means, to be used by the authority in the service of such abstractions as the “social welfare” or the “good of the community.”
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