Appetite Quote by Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are…

— Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love…

— Edmund Burke

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

— Lupe Fiasco

If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and…

— James Farley

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

— Aristotle

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

— Thomas Aquinas

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

— Herbert Spencer

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

— Sallust

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

— Lord Acton

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

— Sir Fulke Greville