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Quote by Germaine de Staël
Nothing but liberty can arouse the soul to the interests of social order.
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The quote argues that freedom is what awakens people to care about keeping society orderly. “Social order” here means the stability and cooperation needed for people to live together. It presents liberty not as the opposite of order, but as the force that makes people personally attentive to preserving it.
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