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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Circumstances beyond my individual control. — Charles Dickens
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death. — Freya Stark
The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to… — Sean MacBride
Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most… — John Quincy Adams
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of… — William J. Clinton
Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. — Calvin Coolidge
What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit… — Judith Crist
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"… — Emma Goldman
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. — Friedrich August von Hayek
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no… — Thomas Jefferson
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State. — Thomas Jefferson
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private… — Samuel Johnson
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has given… — Samuel Johnson
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual… — Mary McCarthy
And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches… — John Stuart Mill
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? — D. H. Lawrence
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with… — Vladimir Lenin

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