All Quotes By Tag: Liberty
“If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom.”
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“A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own culture—is said to have a character. One whose desires and impulses are not his own, has no character, no more than a steam-engine has character…”
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“When people have invested their identities into clichés, the only counter argument they have is ‘being offended’.”
“Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.”
“SCREW CHILDREN! That’s the mantra of the world. Instead of burying them with a national debt, shoving them in shitty schools, drugging them if they don’t comply, hitting them, yelling at them, indoctrinating them with religion and statism and patriotism and military worship, what if we just did what was right for them? The whole world is built on “screw children”, and if we changed that, this would be an alien planet to us.”
“It is easy to be conspicuously ‘compassionate’ if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
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“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”
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“If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
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“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
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“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
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“Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.”
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