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Sartre: Equal Liberty

“I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.”

—Jean Paul Sartre

Jean Paul Sartre on Equal Liberty

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Herbert Spencer: Fools and Folly

“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.” —Herbert Spencer

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Nanny-​State No-No

Maybe your political beliefs have gone too far… when you start to think of citizens as children who must be mothered and managed.

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Proudhon — “To Be Governed”

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-​driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”

—Pierre-​Joseph Proudhon

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Walter Bagehot

“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”

—Walter Bagehot

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Alexander Cockburn, First Rule of Journalism

“The First Rule of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”

—Alexander Cockburn

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