"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression ... The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way ... The third is freedom from want ... The fourth is freedom from fear" [Franklin D. Rooseve...
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.Benjamin Franklin The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. John F. Kennedy For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live ...
“Private property and ‘liberty'of the Greeks, as it were, cannot be separated from slavery, because slave trade was their most important business.The flourishing of their liberty is based on the flourishing of slavery.In the heyday of Athens, on average, an adult male citizen had 18 ...
The libertarians would like to see more emphasis on individual freedom, no restrictive moral laws, and a governmental body whose only function is the administration of the most essential welfare programs and defense against foreign aggression and internal disruption. In essence, libertarianism means a ...
it tends to emanate an essential formlessness, whatever it looks like, which could be interpreted as something everyone can interpret. But for me this formlessness shouldn’t be seen as a kind of willful ambiguity. It is more like the stubbornness of someone not willing to belong to anyone...
This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty...
From the religious perspective, this is the time the prophet Isaiah was looking forward to when reconciling understanding of the human condition would be found and we could ‘revere’ instead of fear the truth of Integrative Meaning/God: ‘Why, O Lord, do you make us wander from your ...
The symbol for women’s innocence/purity is virginity, hence the description of Christ’s mother as the ‘Virgin Mary’ (see Matt. 1:23 & Luke 1:26-34). The renowned writer D.H. Lawrence recognised the essential innocence of the ‘Virgin’ Mary when, in reference to her, he ...
Rousseau first aims to show that it is theoretically possible for humans to live under a state without sacrificing their freedom. He believes that freedom and self-preservation are essential to humans’ “very nature,” so nobody can coherently “renounce [their] freedom,” which would also mean...
‘insight’. That is the amazing aspect about our denial of anything that brings the dilemma of the human condition into focus: it is not unusual for resigned humans to accept an idea up to a point, but as soon as it starts to lead to a confronting conclusion, pretend it doesn’t ...