John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton

No obstacle has been so constant, or so difficult to overcome, as uncertainty and confusion touching the nature of true liberty.

Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison

When time itself shall be no more,
And all things in confusion hurl'd,
Music shall then exert it's power,
And sound survive the ruins of the world

Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison

Should the whole frame of Nature round him break,
In ruin and confusion hurled,
He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack,
And stand secure amidst a falling world.

Felix Adler
Felix Adler

Statesmen and Philanthropists are busy suggesting remedies for the cure of these great evils. But the renovation of our Civil Service, the reform of our Primaries, and whatever other measures may be devised, they all depend in the last instance upon the fidelity of those to whom their execution must be entrusted. They will all fail unless the root of the evil be attacked, unless the conscience of

men be aroused, the confusion of right and wrong checked, and the loftier purposes of our being again brought powerfully home to the hearts of the people.

Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need… you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Philo von Alexandria
Philo von Alexandria

Nature … has born and reared all men alike, and created them genuine brothers, not in mere name, but in very reality, though this kinship has been put to confusion by the triumph of malignant covetousness, which has wrought estrangement instead of affinity and enmity instead of friendship.

Stanislav Andreski
Stanislav Andreski

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular

and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.

Yehuda Ashlag
Yehuda Ashlag

[T]he whole purpose of the Torah is to correct the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, which induced the confusion of the conduct of the sustenance of reality.

Meher Baba
Meher Baba

All this world confusion and chaos was inevitable and no one is to blame.

Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.