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“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.”

Ifs Giving Desire Freedom Strive Captives

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.”

Desire Freedom Liberty Poverty Possession Strongest Despotism Secured Fetters

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”

Giving Should Long Ideas Desire Order Freedom Generations Foundation Lays Loyalty Shore Scope Visionaries Isle

Author:William E. Gladstone

“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.”

Source: The Karamazov Brothers