Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Complete equality isn't compatible with democracy, but it is a agreeable to tolitarianism. After all the only way to ensure the equality of the slothful, the inept and the immoral is to suppress everyone else.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled hard for and defended everyday anew.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Desire is our imprisonment. The man who wants nothing, who is absolutely contented as he is, is free of all bondage. He has attained to ultimate freedom, nirvana - and that is the goal of life. And it is only by attaining that freedom that you will know the significance of being, the song of being, the celebration of being. Your life will become a continuous bliss, and not only that YOU will be blissful, you will be able to bless others too. The whole existence will be blessed by you, by your very presence.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action. It thus helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character.

Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.