Edgar Friedenberg Quotes

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Edgar Friedenberg

• Freedom
• Hypocrisy
• Adolescence
• Civil Liberies

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• It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

  

  Edgar Friedenberg
  • Freedom
  • Hypocrisy
  • Adolescence