“It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.” HumansStatesShowsExerciseLimitsTendenciesHuman LifeDisputesGreat Power Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.” MindHumansStillsSchoolGrowthGenerationsExerciseLimitsAuthorityBlindGenerousHuman MindDisciplePlatoDeferencePlato And Aristotle Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1 Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1
“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.” MenMindLongSelfGovernmentAgeSufferingBornVirtueProgressTeachingConditionsTaughtOughtExerciseLimitsCapacityEconomicsPrejudiceLimitationRulersUnlimitedDominionReactionariesUnlimited Power Author:Walter Lippmann
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.” MenNaturalLibertyRightsExerciseLimitsMembersEnjoymentNatural Rights Author:Marquis de Lafayette
“Whether this vast homogeneous expanse of isotropic matter is fitted not only to be a medium of physical interaction between distant bodies, and to fulfil other physical functions of which perhaps we have as yet no conception, but also to constitute the material organism of beings exercising functions of life and mind as high or higher than ours are at present is a question far transcending the limits of physical speculation.” MindMatterBodyMaterialsHigherExerciseLimitsFunctionMediumsConceptionInteractionOrganismsSpeculationTranscendingExpanseHomogeneous Book:Scientific Papers Source: Scientific Papers
“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.” GodGivenSidesExerciseLimitsIntelligentIntelligenceIntellectGraves Author:Francis Bacon
“The First Amendment to the Constitution says government can't establish a religion, but neither can it limit the exercise of religion. And that's the issue here. What does it mean to be free to exercise your religion? It's not about what you can believe. It's whether you can act on those beliefs.” FirstsBelieveMeanDoeGovernmentBeliefIssuesExerciseLimitsConstitutionAmendmentsFirst Amendment Author:Tom Gjelten