'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea.
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.
I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.