Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything. - Will Durant
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. - Will Durant
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet. - Will Durant
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. - Will Durant
To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world. - Robin Williams
Threats to freedom of speech, writing, and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect, and unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. - George Orwell
There was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. - George Orwell
The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. - George Orwell
Will the man in the street ever feel that freedom of the mind is as important and as much in need of being defended as his daily bread? - George Orwell
What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side. - George Orwell
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - George Orwell
The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon. - Carl Jung
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C.S. Lewis
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.
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