#2,837

Liberty’s remaining partisans in our time tend to forget that a certain old and trivial bourgeois thesis is the proof itself: the condition sine qua non of liberty, for the proletariat as well as for the owners, is the existence of private property.
Direct defense of liberty for the ones; indirect defense of liberty for the others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 454

#2,793

Liberty is not the fruit of order alone; it is the fruit of mutual concessions between order and disorder.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,659

“Liberties” are social precincts in which the individual can move without any coercion; “Liberty,” on the other hand, is a metaphysical principle in whose name a sect seeks to impose its ideals of conduct on everyone else.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 429

#2,652

Freedom intoxicates man as a symbol of independence from God.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 428

#2,616

Law is the easiest method of exercising tyranny.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 423

#2,531

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 407

#2,502

Man conceals under the name of liberty his hunger for sovereignty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 403

#2,496

No one grants humanity certain extreme liberties except someone indifferent to its destiny.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 401

#2,425

Man can be granted all types of liberties, except that of dressing himself and of edifying his taste.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 391

#2,314

To corrupt the individual it suffices to teach him to call his personal desires rights and the rights of others abuses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 375

#2,307

In every historical situation there always arises somebody to defend in the name of liberty, humanity, or justice, the stupid opinion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

#2,051

To liberate man is to subject him to greed and sex.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 332

#1,974

Liberty is the right to be different; equality is a ban on being different.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 321

#1,881

Reactionary thought breaks into history as concrete liberty’s shout of warning, as the spasm of anguish in the face of the unlimited despotism arrived at by the man intoxicated with abstract liberty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 308

#1,701

Absolutism, whether intellectual or political, is the capital sin against the hierarchical method.
Usurpation, by one of the terms in the system, of the liberties of the others.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,609

The reactionary does not condemn the bourgeois mentality, but rather its predominance.
What we reactionaries deplore is the absorption of the aristocracy and the people by the bourgeoisie.
It is the emasculation of liberty or, alternatively, of equality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

#1,319

The standard-bearers of liberty celebrated by the 19th century ended up as the vanguard of industrial despotism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,278

Modern society tramples liberties underfoot, like a column of tanks tramples a procession of pious women.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,223

The percentage of eligible voters who abstain from voting measures the degree of concrete liberty in a democracy.
Where liberty is fictitious, or where it is threatened, the percentage tends toward zero.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

#1,101

The 19th century did not live with more anguish because of its sexual repression than the 20th century with its sexual liberation.
Identical obsession, even when the symptoms are the opposite.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 194