Honore de Balzac Quotes About Liberty
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!
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