When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.