Gertrude Himmelfarb Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Liberty #Essentials #Utterance
“In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ...”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Exercise #Compassion #Feel Good
“absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Freedom #Liberty
“Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Hero #Soul #Villain
“For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Powerful #Order #Law
“The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Past #Two #Historical
“The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Real #Movement #Matter
“Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Seductive #Assurance
“The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.”
-- Gertrude Himmelfarb

#Integrity #Humility #Responsibility

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