Positive Liberty Quotes

#1. On Positive Liberty: The business of the State is to use its organizing powers for the purpose of furnishing the necessary conditions which allow this people freely to unfold its creative faculties.

Adolf Hitler

#2. Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

James F. Cooper

#3. How soon things changed and how low people fell and from what heights. Even those whom he thought untouchable. Or perhaps, especially those. It was as if there were two invisible arcs: with our deeds and words we ascended; with our deeds and words we descended.

Elif Shafak

#4. There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Brene Brown

#5. Before fighting for truth, find the truth.

Kunal Narayan Uniyal

#6. The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

Albert Jay Nock

#7. I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. There was little that common sense and hard work couldn't accomplish.

Karen Hawkins

#9. By degrees, he joins that sorry legion of passive men who abandon their children in order to placate their second wives.

Ian McEwan

#10. Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

Tom Robbins

#11. Aside from some extra fiber, eating two slices of whole wheat bread is really little different, and often worse, than drinking a can of sugar-sweetened soda or eating a sugary candy bar.

William Davis

#12. It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

Mick Rock

#13. There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

George S. Patton

#14. I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.

J. B. Smoove

#15. A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.

Vladimir Prelog

#16. I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Nellie McKay

#17. It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Stephen King

#18. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#19. If we can accept the fact that we create illness, it follows naturally that we can also create wellness. And therein lies a most empowering nugget of truth and healing.

Liberty Forrest