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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.


Friedrich August von Hayek


#been #emergencies #eroded #individual #individual liberty

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.


Yves Tanguy


#before #beforehand #complete #develops #eyes

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.


Hermann Hesse


#comfort #consuming #convenience #deathly #fire

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.


William Graham Sumner


#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?


Joseph Howe


#britain #brought #fathers #fire #liberty

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.


William Dean Howells


#dear #heart #inequality #itself #liberty

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.


David Hume


#kind #liberty #lost #once #seldom

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.


Claudio Hummes


#church #context #development #dignity #effort

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.


Aldous Huxley


#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.


Henrik Ibsen


#being #doing #expanding #goes #i






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