"Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism."

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Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco

Barry Goldwater

#Father Quotes #Equality Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Yoga is both the movement toward and the arrival at a point.”
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
“He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.”
“You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.”
“Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.”
“Find yourself. Be with yourself. Fail and then achieve.”
“A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its ultimate goal-the liberation of man from material cares-and has become an obsessive image hanging over the present. Offered the choice of love or a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal.”
“There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors aren't there to make any decisions. They're not going to change anything.”

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