Quotes by William Hazlitt with liberty

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

English writer

Lived from: 1778 - 1830

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 10 april 1778 Died: 18 september 1830

  • A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
  • There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
  • There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
  • Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
  • Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
  • The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
  • The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
  • The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
  • The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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  • The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
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  • The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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