It's one of the most basic laws of human nature, isn't it? The more we are denied something, the more we want it. The more silence given to this or that topic, the more power.
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To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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