"A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility."

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Stephen Baxter

#Responsibility Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?”
“To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.”
“But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.”

Source : George Fitzhugh, A. Hogeboom (1857). “A Controversy on Slavery Between George Fitzhugh and A. Hogeboom”, p.10
“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
“I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.”
“If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.”
“The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.”
“I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really donâ€™t have a choice.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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