I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.


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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the proces...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty hav...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsc...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually infla...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant h...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisf...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enfor...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really ...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsm...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitt...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been e...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK