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“Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.”

Men Mind Young Pleasure Liberty Train Notion Noise Young Man Mistaken Idleness Riot Mischief Nameless Ennui

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.”

Men World Home Earth Liberty Modern Worst Adventure Truth Is Tasks Notion Experiments Spots Variety Dull Routine Arrangements Indulge Whim Indulge In Decorum Domesticity Wild Places

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.”

People Littles Term Freedom Liberty Break Broken Higher Notion Offense Disagreeable Saying And Doing

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.”

People Has Beens Two Character Feelings Nations Differences Justice Race Liberty Moral Aspect England Notion Scotland Flexible Spine Charter Scotch Dialect Statutes Idiom Britons Two Nations

Author:John Galt

“The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.”

Men Should May Doe Law Political Liberty Subjects Ought Citizens Please Safety Notion Civil Rights Secure Framed

Author:Catherine the Great

“The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.”

States Helping Liberty Steps Survival Labor Victim Competition Notion Inevitable Capitalist Mistaken Powerless Hostile Despotism Survival Of The Fittest Unsafe Fleece

Book:The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

Source: The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood

“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.”

Should Persons Art Made Matter Law Liberty Subjects Conscious Should Have Notion Physics Biology Organisms Laws Of Physics

Author:W. H. Auden

“Whatever Party of Men obtain the Reins of Management, and have power to name the Person who shall License the Press, that Party of Men have the whole power of keeping the World in Ignorance, in all matters relating to Religion or Policy, since the Writers of that Party shall have full liberty to impose their Notions upon the World.”

Men World Persons Matter Whole Names Party Liberty Policy Ignorance Management Presses Notion License Reins

Book:An Essay on the Regulation of the Press

Source: An Essay on the Regulation of the Press

“Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good in the form of the means provided to assure that people can make use of their liberties, and the like.”

People Ifs Mean Different Use Form Political Views Common Liberty Democracy Notion Common Good Political View

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers