… is from page 167 of my colleague Larry White’s excellent 2012 book, The Clash of Economic Ideas (footnote deleted, links added):
In this connection Hayek quoted the tart observation of the economist Frank Knight: “the probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master on a slave plantation.”
