Quotes 501 till 520 of 614.
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
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There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
Cosmos (1980) -
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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This world of imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids - without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954)
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