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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe libe...more

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If we regard the state as the father, and the citizens as children, there are three alternatives. First, the father may be bad and despotic:this, most...more

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Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain ...more

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The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to ...more

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The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

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The medical profession's classic prescription for coping with such predicaments, Primum non nocere (First, do no harm), sounds better than it is. In f...more

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It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatri...more

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The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital syst...more

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Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving the...more

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Honoring the value of competence and steadfastness requires a generosity of spirit and a curbing of the passion for envy, traits that few people value...more