Immanuel Kant Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Opposites, Liberty, Democracy

  Immanuel Kant (1932). “Perpetual peace”

• The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Government, People, Liberty

• The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Greed, Liberty, Judgment

  Immanuel Kant (1932). “Perpetual peace”

• Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

  Immanuel Kant

  Government, Law, Liberty

  Immanuel Kant (1796). “Project for a Perpetual Peace: A Philosphical Essay”, p.40

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