Voltaire - It is difficult to free fools from the chains... It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
"Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.
“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous...“ Edmund Burke, Letter to Charles James Fox (8 October 1777 The ellipsis is mine ;)
