“To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.” MayMadeUseLibertyCapableIllLibertarianArguingLibertarianismBreach Author:George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
“Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some” ShouldSpacePayLibertySpendingArguingInvisibleKingdomsOur TimeImaginaryTributeCivil LibertiesOuter SpaceJeopardy Author:Tom Tomorrow
“If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.” PeopleIfsNeedsHumansLife IsLibertyPositionBehaviorAdultsPhilosophicalSticksWorthyArguingSpeculationPrivate LifeUnnaturalCondemnationVindicated Book:Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
“John Stuart Mill, in his wonderful 1859 book On Liberty, talks about civility. And this is why you should always be concerned about calls for civility. He points out that civility ends up getting defined by the people who are in charge. And you'll notice that when people argue for civility, they tend to actually believe that whatever they say is civil. And if they're angry about it, it's righteous rage. But if you say it and it's kind of sharp or mean, then it's incivil. ... And sometimes, disagreement-to be productive-can't be all that civil.” PeopleIfsShouldBelieveKindMeanBookEndsSometimesLibertyWonderfulConcernedAngryRageArguingDefinedProductiveRighteousCivilityDisagreementMills Author:Greg Lukianoff
“The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.” WantHumansIndividualProcessChangeFreedomCommonCitiesLibertyPowerRightsDependsExerciseResourcesTransformationHuman RightsAccessArguingInevitableCollectivesUrbanMaking ChangesNeglectedRemakesIndividual LibertyCollectivityUrbanization Book:Social Justice and the City Source: Social Justice and the City
“I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.” PeopleBelieveGivenLibertyArguingPrivacy Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.” FactsLibertySecurityArguingRealmsPrivacyRhetoricOpposingSecurity And Liberty Author:Edward Snowden
“John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.” BelievePersonsStatesReasonGovernmentPastI BelieveLibertyAcceptingPrinciplesModernLimitsSafetyInstitutionsEmbracePreparedHarmLibertarianArguingWelfareThoughtfulAcceptableRegulationMillsWelfare StateCiting Author:Robert H. Frank
“I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.” KindCountryLibertyStudentsConservativeObviousArguingLiberalismFranklinMedicare Author:Robert Bothwell