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“What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.”

Writing Individual Speak Voice Speech Intellectual Silent Likes Luxury Individualism

Book:The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970

Source: The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970

“If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.”

People Ifs States Would Be Christian Law Individual Perfect Duty Luxury Vanity Obedient Magistrates

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!”

Art Stills Culture Individual Sex Generations Approach Mass Luxury Acquaintance Propulsion

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.”

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