We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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