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Quote from Alan Watts,


"But when no risk is taken there is no freedom.
It is thus that, in an industrial society,
the plethora of laws made for our personal safety
convert the land into a nursery,
and policemen hired to protect us
become selfserving busybodies."


By:

Alan Watts (more quotes by Alan Watts or books by/about Alan Watts)


(1915-1973) British-American philosopher

Source:

Tao: The Watercourse Way, 1975

Categories:

Courage, Freedom, Law, Liberty, Police, Privacy, Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution, Security, Spirituality, Death

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