Adversity Quote by Anthony Daniels

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.” quote by Anthony Daniels — Download Open image

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”

Anthony Daniels

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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

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[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

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For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

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The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so…

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All I ever wanted to do was act.

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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

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