Carl Jung Quotes
Without freedom there can be no morality.
Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychoanalyst, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
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The great fallacy of course is who decides what is right. What is noteworthy is that this political and philosophical view of liberty still exists in much of the world today. There is no need for rights or constitutions to protect people if they do things that are “right”. It is only when we do something that the authorities or the majority think is “wrong” that we need the protection of rights and constitutions.
Muir was tried and convicted for sedition for his speech, and at his trial in August 1793 he repeated the quotation claiming that it was not seditious. He was advocating extending the vote to male, non-land owners. See Robert MacQueen Braxfield.
The Cherokee were settled Indians with farms and ranches. These lands were coveted by many whites and many including President Andrew Jackson was trying to get the Cherokee to trade their land for land in the Oklahoma Territory, despite the white promises of the past Ross took the case to the Supreme Court which ruled that the Cherokee land was theirs and it must be protected for them by the government. But President Andrew Jackson, disobeying the Supreme Court Opinion, forced the Cherokee at gun and bayonet point onto the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, totally reneging on this quotation and deeds and promises of the past.
Carl Gustav Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
