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“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

“Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.”

Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Politics Strong Freedom Liberty Power Democracy Movement Mass Significant Socialism Strongest Revolt Inertia Democracy Freedom

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.”

People Men Way Needs Wisdom Reality Force Freedom Courage Taken Violence Produce Calm Driving Strongest Offense Avoiding Maintaining Driving Force

Author:Oscar Arias

“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.”

Opportunity Freedom Democracy Notion Strongest Patronizing

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.”

Freedom Democracy Weapons Weak Strongest Nonviolence Retaliation

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”

Law Individual Freedom Acting Break Democracy Crime Abuse Foundation Majority Guilty Strongest 4th Of July Eternal Vigilance

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.”

“Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.”

People Men Reality Force Freedom Produce Driving Strongest Driving Force

Author:Oscar Arias