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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and…
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.…
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Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
— Aldous Huxley
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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in…
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The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place;…
— Lucy Parsons
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings
— Euripides
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Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
— Henri Matisse
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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