Nature Quote by John Stuart Mill

“The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.”

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.”

— Charles Wheelan

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

— Henry Campbell Black

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers…

— William Graham Sumner

“Freedom is an inmost power. That is why society limits it.”

— Marie Vieux-Chauvet

“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That civil power…

— Thomas Paine

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.”

— Dean Koontz

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary

— Kathleen Norris

“Civilsation is the sleight of hand that conceals our natures from ourselves.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.”

— Dave Champion

“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used…

— Altiero Spinelli