Men are Qualified for Civil Liberties in Exact Proportion to their Disposition to put Moral Chains Upon their Appetites" - Granite Grok

Men are Qualified for Civil Liberties in Exact Proportion to their Disposition to put Moral Chains Upon their Appetites”

“Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity…Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”

Edmund Burke

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