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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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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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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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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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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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
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Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.
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This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.
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Commit to what you love - that's important. Believe in yourself and try as much as possible to do everything you do from a place of love. Not labor, but love.
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Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
