Immanuel Kant Quotes
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.
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It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
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I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
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“All of us see a story according to our own lights. None of us is capable of objectivity.”
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
