“The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.” LibertyHumourContradictionExpansionIgnobleOutburst Author:Joan Miro
“The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.” MenNeedsLightGrowthLibertyPlantInstinctIntuitionGenuineExpansion Book:Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others Source: Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others
“The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.” WisdomActionPoliticsLibertyEconomyDemandPossessionLiberalismPossessedExpansionRetention Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953 Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953
“the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.” TwoStatesGovernmentMovingQualityLibertyMankindWallDemandHighestMachinesAimFilledAtmosphereDryTreatmentDelicateSheepExpansionDeficitAttainmentReductionObedientFlocksMonotonousClockworkHigh RoadDry UpColorless Author:Ouida
“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.” FormPoliticalPoliticsEnergyGoalCommunityPartyLibertyViolenceBehaviorMassDemocraticUnityCommittedTraditionalPursuePurityInternalsAbandonEthicalCollaborationElitesDeclineExpansionRestraintCultHumiliationObsessivePreoccupationUneasyCleansingVictimhood Book:The Anatomy of Fascism Source: The Anatomy of Fascism