“Since freedom is not a fixed thing that can be grasped and held once for all, but a growth, any particular society, such as our own, always appears partly free and partly unfree. In so far as it favors, in every child, the development of his highest possibilities, it is free, but where it falls short of this it is not.” ChildrenFallGrowthFreedomPossibilityParticularDevelopmentHighestFavorsFixedUnfree Book:Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order
“The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.” WellsNationsFreedomCommonRightsAirSeaParticularExclusionUsageCommon Things Author:Elizabeth I
“Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.” FaithFreedomResponsibilityLibertyMoralKnowledgeParticularSolutionsMarkAbsolutesRegardProfoundFinalsIncludingSocialismResistanceLiberalismSkepticismImperativesInsistenceIdeologues Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.” DoeBeliefForceFreedomResultsKnownEffectsParticularBalanceCircumstancesReleaseGrantedBeneficial Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.” MenTurnsNamesFreedomHalfMankindParticularCircumstancesPreparedBlowBrotherhoodOther HalfBrotherhood Of Man Author:R. D. Laing
“Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.” IfsFreedomPrinciplesParticularAdvantageSupremeTreated Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.” IfsMenWayKindLongEndsUseGovernmentActionIndividualGivenFreedomDecisionPrinciplesParticularConsequencePracticalsSpheresSubmissionEvaluationOmniscient Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.” MenMayImportantUseWould BeUsedFreedomMillionsPossibilityParticularExerciseFunctionImportanceMajorityGrantsOne ManBeneficialBeing Free Author:Friedrich August von Hayek