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But among timely values,
liberty
has no place.
The “third way” is not about either open societies or
liberty.
At the other end, decentralization rarely means a gain in democracy and
liberty.
But I wonder whether the curious silence about the fundamental value of a decent life, liberty—old, very old
liberty
if you wish—will not involuntarily make this political episode one further element in a dangerous development.
Today it seems more important than even a few years ago to begin a new political project with the insistence on
liberty
before we turn to social inclusion and cohesion.
So we should be clear about what that vision entails: right and law in the service of strength and force, rather than vice versa; order over liberty; and institutionalized persecution of gays and other “deviants,” who represent the quintessence of a decadent West emasculated by the poison of cosmopolitanism.
Mill’s defense of individual liberty, however, assumes that individuals are the best judges and guardians of their own interests – an idea that today verges on naiveté.
The Maduro government’s all-out attack on
liberty
and democracy is deservedly attracting greater international attention.
The equally outraged Prime Minister Manuel Valls has called bare breasts a symbol of French republican
liberty.
Moreover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the
liberty
of pondering whether imperiled states should be excluded from the eurozone.
It is healthy when the West is asked to live up to its own self-image as the bastion of reason and human
liberty.
"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe--because, in the long run, stability cannot be purchased at the expense of
liberty.
John Stuart Mill, in his classic defense of liberty, argued that each individual is the best judge and guardian of his or her own interests.
A universal basic income allows for new understandings of
liberty
and equality that bridge hitherto irreconcilable political blocs, while stabilizing society and reinvigorating the notion of shared prosperity in the face of otherwise destabilizing technological innovation.
Indeed, Egyptians are in some ways now better informed than Americans (and, as Thomas Jefferson often repeated,
liberty
is not possible without an informed citizenry).
I hear them chanting as I write this: “Democracy without
liberty
is no democracy.”
“A capital is an abyss where nearly the entire nation goes to lose its morals, its laws, its courage, and its liberty.”
Although some policymakers do recognize that the food industry is emulating Big Tobacco’s tactics, Rousseau predicted a more general trend: urban wealth is incompatible with public
liberty.
You may say it would be better to have both wealth and liberty, but they are incompatible.”
On the Mediterranean’s southern shore, a panoply of grievances, from corruption to a desire for liberty, has motivated the unrest.
“And when we go through tough times, when we make big decisions as a country, it necessarily stirs passions, stirs up controversy,” which he called “a mark of our liberty.”
Similarly, Bush recognizes that outsiders cannot force
liberty
on people.
Given what the US is, the Obama administration cannot afford to neglect the soft-power narrative of democracy, liberty, and openness.
More fundamentally, such solutions require abandoning the false dichotomy of
liberty
and security.
Northern European central bankers who favor the status quo like to quote Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Money is coined liberty.”
Since the French Revolution, the imperative of equality has often triumphed over the concern for
liberty.
Let us celebrate the arrival in North Africa of the spirit of
liberty
and of solidarity, which brought Ukraine its
liberty
once and will do so again.
Sooner or later the Taliban will sweep to power again, at
liberty
as happened before to throw acid in women’s faces.
Some measures – unauthorized searches of bank records and wiretapping of telephone calls – compromise the
liberty
of all.
These core principles--humility, liberty, and self-help--must continue to guide Conservatives, because they were not molded by Conservatism's ideologically "sharp contours."
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