“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.” FirstsHas BeensFatherPoliticsDifferencesLibertyCreativeEconomicUnderstoodEqualityOur TimeConformityFoundingFreedom And LibertyDespotismEmancipationOur Founding FathersLiberty And Equality Author:Barry Goldwater
“There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantLongCertainSongLibertyCreativeLong TimeSacredLists Author:Keith Urban
“The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.” MatterActionPoliticalLibertyCreativeDependsAdvancementPolitical Power Author:Leonard Read
“The most important fact about American liberty is that it has never been a single idea, but a set of different and even contrary traditions in creative tension with one another. This diversity of libertarian ideas has created a culture of freedom which is more open and expansive than any unitary tradition alone could possibly be.” ImportantIdeasDifferentFactsCultureLibertyCreativeDiversityTraditionLibertarianContraryTensionAmerican LibertyCreative Tension Book:Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Source: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
“Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.” FormOpportunityLibertyCreativeVariousDecayMonstrousChaoticAristocracyUnfairnessMeritocracyEquality Of OpportunityTotal Equality Author:Peter J. Carroll
“Most comics are not truly rebellious or creatively free. Most comics, paintings, music, etc., are derivative of other, more successful works. And it's quite often that those without much rebellious spirit are the ones to imitate it. Genuine radical expression is hard to come by, but it usually crops up when money is not a motivating factor. You can take all the liberties you want when someone else's dime is not at stake. The validation is not a threat to comics. A far greater threat to the creative freedom of artists working in any medium is self-consciousness and self-censorship.” SpiritArtistLibertyCreativeSuccessfulPaintingThreatRadicalRebellious Author:Phoebe Gloeckner