"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded."

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Source : "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Volume 3: "The Political Order of a Free People". Chapter 17: "A Model Constitution", 1973.

Friedrich August von Hayek

#Liberty Quotes #Emergencies Quotes #Anti War Quotes

“Let me break it down for you again, You know I only say it because I'm truly genuine: Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem.”

Source : Song: DOO WOP THAT THING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hi, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
“I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!”
“I am tempted to say that a doctorate in AI would be negatively useful, but I am not one to hold someoneâ€™s reckless youth against them â€“ just because you acquired a doctorate in AI doesnâ€™t mean you should be permanently disqualified.”
“I think good art has good concept behind it. Nothing can always articulate fully the way a Ph.D. candidate can articulate their thesis, because artists work with a combination of intuition and intellect blended together and out comes whatever they produce. So it's a blend of kind of a sensual response to material and an intellectual response to idea, maybe a blend of the two.”
“I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.”
“Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.”
“The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.”

Source : "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book byKarel Montor (p. 18), 1998.
“We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.”

Source : William Segal (2003). “A Voice at the Borders of Silence: An Intimate View of the Gurdjieff Work, Zen Buddhism, and Art”

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