Quote#Freedom
Comfort and habits let us be ready to forgo, but I am not ready for a…
Quote byJohn Maynard Keynes · 1883–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "A Short View of Russia" (1925); Originally three essays for the Nation and Athenaeum, later published separately as A Short View of Russia (1925), then edited down for publication in Essays in Persuasion (1931).
English (original)
Comfort and habits let us be ready to forgo, but I am not ready for a creed which does not care how much it destroys the liberty and security of daily life, which uses deliberately the weapons of persecution, destruction and international strife.
— John Maynard Keynes
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