#2,970

History is indeed the history of freedom—not of an essence “Freedom,” but of free human acts and their unforeseeable consequences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,903

The people today does not feel free except when it feels authorized to respect nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 464

#2,870

The results of modern “liberation” make us remember with nostalgia the abolished “bourgeois hypocrisies.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,866

Modern man believes he lives amidst a pluralism of opinions, when what prevails today is a stifling unanimity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,781

Man’s freedom does not free him from necessity.
But twists it into unforeseeable consequences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,772

Nobody is ignorant of the fact that historical events are made up of four factors: necessity, coincidence, spontaneity, freedom.
Nevertheless, it is rare to find a historiographical school that does not seek to reduce them to a single factor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,724

Where equality allows freedom to enter, inequality slips in.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,709

“Sexual liberation” allows modern man to pretend to be ignorant of the multiple taboos of another kind that govern him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 436

#2,660

When the tyrant is the anonymous law, modern man believes he is free.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,576

The aesthetic impossibilities of an age stem not from social factors, but from internal censors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,559

In ages of complete freedom, indifference to the truth grows so much that nobody makes the effort to confirm a truth or to refute it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,440

Upon finding himself perfectly free, the individual discovers that he has not been relieved of everything, but despoiled.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

#2,306

The increase in freedom on the one hand, and the increase in regulation on the other, work together perfectly to demoralize society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,239

Civilization is the sum total of internal and external repressions imposed on the amorphous expansion of an individual or a society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 364

#2,227

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 362

#2,225

Freedom is the term used most without knowing what it means.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 361

#2,183

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule.
The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

#1,828

Without a hierarchical structure it is not possible to transform freedom from a fable into a fact.
The liberal always discovers too late that the price of equality is the omnipotent state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 300

#1,704

Freedom intoxicates, as the license to be another.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 284

#1,420

Several civilizations were plundered because freedom inadvertently opened the gate to the enemy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241