Otto Hermann Kahn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
-- Otto Hermann Kahn

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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.
-- Otto Hermann Kahn

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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
-- Otto Hermann Kahn

#Liberty #Democracy #Autocracy
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
-- Otto Hermann Kahn

#House #Liberty #Wounded

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Otto Hermann Kahn famous quotes

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