Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.

Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew, In prison pine with bondage and restraint; And with remembrance of the greater grief To banish the less, I find my chief relief.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.

To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.

To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution in times of uncertainty and insecurity. To be patriotic is to speak up against the powerful in defense of the weak and the voiceless. To be patriotic is to be willing to pay the price to preserve our freedoms, dignity, and rights. To be patriotic is to challenge the abuses of the PATRIOT Act.

To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

To change masters is not to be free.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.

Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

To those advocates of independent paper moneys who also champion the free market, I would address this simple question: "Why don't you advocate the unlimited freedom of each individual to manufacture dollars?" If dollars are really and properly things-in-themselves, why not let everyone manufacture them as they manufacture wheat and baby food?

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.