#safely

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#because #doctrine #eighties #had #little

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#admit #amidst #away #cannot #censorship

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#certainty #comfortable #down #nations #safely