On liberty by H. G. Wells “A Modern Utopia”

“But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permission may diminish it. It does not follow, as these people would have us believe, that a man is more free where there is least law and more restricted where there is most law. A socialism or a communism is not necessarily a slavery, and there is no freedom under Anarchy. Consider how much liberty we gain by the loss of the common liberty to kill. Thereby one may go to and fro in all the ordered parts of the earth, unencumbered”

Excerpt From: H. G. Wells. “A Modern Utopia.” Feedbooks, 1905. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

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