“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” InspirationalNeedsMindTruthScienceChoicesChangeFreedomLibertySweetProveEconomicsBusyIntelligenceLibertarianProofCleverLife ChangingLife And LoveChange ManagementInspirational ChangeMind ChangingProgress And ChangeChanging My MindFuture ProgressChange Is Hard Book:The Essential Galbraith Source: The Essential Galbraith
“To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.” ValuesFreedomOughtProveObliged Author:Edmund Burke
“After all, I do not have so many ways of proving that I am free. We is always free at the expense of someone else. It is a bother,but it is normal.” WayFreedomProveNormalInjusticeBotherExpenses Author:Albert Camus
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” TryingWarPoliticalPoliticsEnergyFreedomPartyLibertyDemocracyEconomicCitizensPoliticianSucceedProveVoteChiefsVotingAnti WarAntiwarPolitical PartiesDemocracies HaveRight To VoteVoting And DemocracyElections And VotingVoting DayMinority Report Author:H. L. Mencken
“Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.” FreedomLevelsBearsHigherProveRaisesWorthyAcknowledgment Book:Conversations with Goethe Source: Conversations with Goethe
“The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.” ChoicesFreedomAbilityLibertyProveIndependenceFundamentalsTradeIngredientsFree TradeDetrimental Author:John Truman Stoddert
“It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.” WellsTruthScienceWishFreedomAnswersSupportProveAuthorityArgumentWeightRelySincereQuestioningProvenAbsurdityAssertionScientific MethodSearch For TruthAdulation Author:Vincenzo Galilei
“Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.” MeanFreedomProveBehaviorAspectOddArbitraryInsisting Book:Freedom: A Dialogue Source: Freedom: A Dialogue