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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny ...more

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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from it. And I know, too, that we must keep endless wat...more

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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the ...more

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Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goal...more

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Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

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This is why it is not true that culture can be, even temporarily, suspended in order to make way for a new culture. Man’s unbroken testimony as to his...more

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I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard ...more

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And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and ...more

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Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertain...more

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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposi...more

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It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

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One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infection is a good bottle of wine', which confirmed an ...more