"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

Absence, Freedom, May, Obstacles

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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

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"In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State."

Patrick J. Kennedy, American Politician

Absence, Children, Parents

"They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left."

Jock Sturges, American Photographer

Absence, Clothes

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

Absence, Liberty, Responsibility, Restraint

"Judicious absence is a weapon."

Charles Reade, English Novelist

Absence,

"Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics."

Nick Rahall, American Politician

Absence, Wilderness

"The system adopted in the Latin American instrument proves that, although no state can obligate another to join such a zone, neither can one prevent others wishing to do so from adhering to a regime of total absence of nuclear weapons within their own territories."

Alfonso G. Robles, American Diplomat

Absence, State, Weapons

"Absence is more, thorny on the soul, than however dulcet, presence can be.Apparently, I have missed you, more than, I have ever loved you."

Jasleen Kaur Gumber, Indian Writer

Absence, Love, Longing, Emotion

"What living occasion can,Be just to the absent?"

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Absence, Justice, Memory, Emotion

"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."

Derek Bailey, English Musician

Absence, Play

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

Absence, Gold, Inflation, Value

Explore more quotes by Bertrand Russell

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Happiness

"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

Science

"For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau."

Philosophy

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."

Government

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

Happiness

"Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact."

Psychology

"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."

Society

"The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem."

Psychology

"In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary."

Balance

"Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power."

Power