Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands of sin, and for his soul, In spite of fools consulted seriously.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

He who fox-like got his rank, Is wolf-like in his office.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.

How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

I am God! I am nothing, I'm play, I am freedom, I am life. I am the boundary, I am the peak.

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.