Liberty is the right not to lie.
- Topic: Liberty, Truth
- Location: Olympic National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
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I rebel; therefore I exist.
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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defence.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
