Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Freedom comes in individual packages.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.