BTCRadioFlyer on Nostr: An interesting quote I read in John Mark Comers book "Live No Lies" Men are qualified ...
An interesting quote I read in John Mark Comers book "Live No Lies"
Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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, in A Letter from Mr. Burke,
to a Member of the National Assembly
Men are qualified for civil liberty, in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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, in A Letter from Mr. Burke,
to a Member of the National Assembly