libertinage

• “He wrote of some Frenchmen and Indians as living in a state that he called libertinage and license, which was in his thinking the vice of liberty and the anarchy of selfishness, egoism, personal autonomy, and individual self-seeking.”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “One of the words Brown uses most often in private to describe the Tory leader is "libertarian": a word that conveys his belief that Cameron's "compassionate conservatism" is mere window-dressing, but also hints at a decadent strain of Tory libertinage, drug-taking and yacht-fondling.”

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• “In other words, it has led to post-hippy, postmodern anarchy and libertinage -- or to various forms of secular-government religions such as national socialism, fascism, and communism.”

  Government Fundamentalists, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “There is a difference between freedom of speech and libertinage; the two news stations that were closed where used to promote riots and to preach incoherent news such as “it was a bad thing that the holocaust did not eliminate all the Jews”… Even hugo Lloren sent a letter to the president of such station because such disparate was put on the air.”

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• “More likely, the potential dad pool is not daydreaming about sacrificing the peak years of libertinage for a single woman and sober family life.”

  Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Yanmama Boom

• “He had a language to describe an excess of liberty—libertinage, as in our libertine, and license.”

  Simon & Schuster: Champlain's Dream

• “Mr. Buckley is there in San Francisco when, at a prenomination rally, thousands of college students declare opposition to their professors '"intensive indoctrination in state welfarism, anti-anti-Communism, moral libertinage, skepticism, anti-Americanism.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Principled and Pilloried

• “The same principle of exclusive self-regard, applied to the gratification of sense, passed for a satisfactory defence of libertinage.”

  Voltaire

• “He instructed his nephew in the delights of libertinage, among other things.”

  'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_

• “However, if it were only those persons of different sexes united in a bewitching apartment, decorated rouge, those lights, those effeminate voices, all this must, in the long-run, engender a certain mental libertinage, give rise to immodest thoughts and impure temptations.”

  Madame Bovary

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