Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and retain the property he creates through his own labor, and to be treated impartially before a just law. Moreover, equality should not be confused with perfection, for man is also imperfect, making his application of equality, even in the most just society, imperfect. Otherwise, inequality is the natural state of man in the sense that each individual is born unique in all his human characteristics. Therefore, equality and inequality, properly comprehended, are both engines of liberty.
Mark R. LevinStichwörter: liberty equality inequality
What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he is talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?
Dalton TrumboStichwörter: liberty war choices-and-consequences
In particular those who are condemned to stagnation are often pronounced happy on the pretext that happiness consists in being at rest. This notion we reject, for our perspective is that of existentialist ethics. Every subject plays his part as such specifically through exploits or projects that serve as a mode of transcendence; he achieves liberty only through a continual reaching out towards other liberties. There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. Every time transcendence falls back into immanence, stagnation, there is a degradation of existence into the ‘en-sois’ – the brutish life of subjection to given conditions – and of liberty into constraint and contingence. This downfall represents a moral fault if the subject consents to it; if it is inflicted upon him, it spells frustration and oppression. In both cases it is an absolute evil. Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
Simone de BeauvoirStichwörter: liberty philosophy
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
Aung San Suu KyiStichwörter: liberty freedom democracy fearless aung-san-suu-kyi
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Isabel PatersonStichwörter: liberty education freedom totalitarianism taxes political libertarian statism
The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
George OrwellStichwörter: liberty power freedom democracy free-speech media elections responsibility vote government voters voting president political-science politics-observation republicans voting-rights democracy-freedom democracy-voting democracy-fascism politics-science politicsics
As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.
Robert G. IngersollStichwörter: progress liberty equality value human-rights development equal-rights
Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.
Tiffany MadisonStichwörter: liberty freedom religion faith freedom-of-thought purity freedom-of-religion freedom-of-expression
... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: liberty pain free-will freedom mind tyranny heart persecution depression heartache catholic-author suppression gadfly free-choice
the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.
William J. FedererStichwörter: liberty history government
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