Excessive Freedom Quotes

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

The evils we experience flow from an excess of democracy.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

Whatever people can stomach, I say go for it.

Comfort, however, easily merges into license.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

America's biggest problem is too much freedom.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

My life has been a magnificent indulgence.

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.