Immanuel Kant Quotes
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
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People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
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Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
