Allan Bloom Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

  Allan Bloom

  Learning, Cynical, Political

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

  Allan Bloom

  Mind, Liberty, Alternatives

• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

  Allan Bloom

  Essence, Liberty, Care

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 284, 1990.

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