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not because he is inferior to the authorities which conduct it, or that he is less capable than his neighbor of governing himself, but because he acknowledges the utility of an association with his fellow-men, and because he knows that no such association can exist without a regulating force.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Toute société est en soi complexe, c’est-à-dire constituée d’activités incessantes en inter-rétro-actions, comportant des relations à la fois de solidarité et d’antagonisme. Plus elle est complexe, plus elle comporte de libertés pour ses individus et ses groupes, plus ces libertés sont génératrices de désordres. Hegel a fort bien discerné la face
... See moreEdgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
What we know with the greatest certainty concerning the client is, that he could not leave one patron and choose another, and that he was bound, from father to son, to the same family. If we knew only this, it would be sufficient to convince us that his condition could not be a very desirable one. Let us add that the client was not a proprietor of
... See moreNuma Denis Fustel de Coulanges • The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Illustrated)
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’
Dan Brown • Origin: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 5)
For all kinds of social purposes he has the calculable orbit of the man in the caste or the servile state; but in the story of his own soul he is still pursuing, at great peril, his own adventure.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
history’s choices are not made for the benefit of humans.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
« En démocratie, l’état de la justice est un marqueur extrêmement fiable de l’état des libertés, de l’égalité réelle et de la séparation des pouvoirs », déclare à juste titre la Ligue française des droits de l’homme.