Quote by Mortimer Adler
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. – Mortimer Adler

Other quotes by Mortimer Adler

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. – Mortimer Adler

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Faith
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When we ask for love, we dont ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love. – Mortimer Adler

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Love
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Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. Thats why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. – Mortimer Adler

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Love
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In America its live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well. – Vince McMahon

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Freedom

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable. – Jose Maria Aznar

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Freedom

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out. – Allen West

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Freedom

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi

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Freedom

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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Platos cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and dont know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? – Desiderius Erasmus

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But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion. – James McGreevey

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He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead. – Anon.

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He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. – Oliver Goldsmith

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