“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this war we shall be going downhill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to affect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.” PeopleThinkingMayMadeWarMomentsSpiritForgetLibertySupportRightsForgottenDuesConclusionMaking MoneyFacultySoleRulersResortsCarelessReviveShacklesUnitingDisregarded Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.” FreedomLibertyDutyRespectUnderstoodConscienceHarmonyPropertyVariousTendenciesFacultyFulfilling Author:Giuseppe Mazzini
“Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.” MenMayLibertyExerciseClaimsPossessionEvery ManFacultyCompatible Author:Herbert Spencer
“We wish, in a word, equality - equality in fact as a corollary, or rather, as primordial condition of liberty. From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs; that is what we wish sincerely and energetically.” NeedsFactsWishLibertyConditionsFacultySincerely Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.” WayDoeIdeasWishCausesLibertyWillingExpressionIndifferenceFree WillFacultyVoidWish YouUnworthyChimeraScholastics Author:Voltaire