Advantage Quote by Immanuel Kant

“To understand the nature and quantity of government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As Nature created him for…

— Thomas Paine

“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the pleasures of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over…

— Anonymous

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that…

— Mirabeau B. Lamar

“… as we submit to be dressed like dolls, we never can rise to the stations of duty and usefulness from which they desire…

— Sarah Grimké

“To consider freedom as directly dependent on the number of man’s requirements and the extent of their immediate satisfaction shows a twisted understanding of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The more I study the works of men in their institutions, the more clearly I see that, in their efforts after independence, they become…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau