Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 1
Contesto: I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in which they may be regarded as good. I wish to assert with respect to them two propositions.
First, that in the present day even those who use those words most rationally — that is to say, as the names of elements of social life which, like others, have their advantages and disadvantages according to time, place, and circumstance — have a great disposition to exaggerate their advantages and to deny the existence, or at any rate to underrate the importance, of their disadvantages.
Next, that whatever signification be attached to them, these words are ill-adapted to be the creed of a religion, that the things which they denote are not ends in themselves, and that when used collectively the words do not typify, however vaguely, any state of society which a reasonable man ought to regard with enthusiasm or self-devotion.
James Fitzjames Stephen: Frasi in inglese
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4
Contesto: Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language. Law, in many cases, means not only a command, but a beneficent command. Liberty means not the bare absence of restraint, but the absence of injurious restraint. Justice means not mere impartiality in applying general rules to particular cases, but impartiality in applying beneficent general rules to particular cases. Some people half consciously use the word "true" as meaning useful as well as true. Of course language can never be made absolutely neutral and colourless; but unless its ambiguities are understood, accuracy of thought is impossible, and the injury done is proportionate to the logical force and general vigour of character of those who are misled.
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 2 : The Liberty of Thought and Discussion
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 3 : The Distinction Between the Temporal and Spiritual Power
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4
Contesto: Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language. Law, in many cases, means not only a command, but a beneficent command. Liberty means not the bare absence of restraint, but the absence of injurious restraint. Justice means not mere impartiality in applying general rules to particular cases, but impartiality in applying beneficent general rules to particular cases. Some people half consciously use the word "true" as meaning useful as well as true. Of course language can never be made absolutely neutral and colourless; but unless its ambiguities are understood, accuracy of thought is impossible, and the injury done is proportionate to the logical force and general vigour of character of those who are misled.
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 5
“Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.”
Ch. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAkAAAAAYAAJ&q="originality+consists+in+thinking+for+yourself,+not+in+thinking+differently+from+other+people"&pg=PA48#v=onepage
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874)
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 5
A General View Of The Criminal Law Of England (1863)
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 5 : Equality
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4 : The Doctrine of Liberty in its Application to Morals
Origine: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 2
