The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus … - Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun

The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.

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