You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Individual liberty depends on collective freedom and mutual protection.
- In plain terms
- Your freedom depends on others being free too.
- What can you take from it?
- Defend others freedoms to secure your own.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Whose freedom do you defend?
- How does your freedom affect others?
Another view
Self interest may sometimes outweigh collective good.
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