The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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