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The ideal of a mode of government that mirrors the

values of a single community is dangerous because it

implies that plural identities are pathological and

univocal identities normal.

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism

In America today our great divide in many ways

comes down to a feud between the repressions of

correctness, on the one hand, and freedom, on the other.

Were correctness to prevail, its know-nothingism and

repressiveness would surely lead to cultural decline. Even

if freedom offers no guarantee of something better, it is

at least freedom, and the possibilities are infinite.

Shelby Steele, Shame

A man of imagination has an advantage over other people,

in that an actual experience is almost always less intense

than his expectations of it. An actual misfortune is almost

always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of

course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less

stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

Lion Feuchtwanger, The Devil in France

Finally there is a justice, though a very different kind

of justice, in restoring freedom, which is the only

imperishable value of history. Men are never really willing

to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they

do not believe in dying completely.

Albert Camus, The Rebel