The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
