Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Never follow anybody else`s idea - that is very dangerous because you will become imitative. Always follow your own nature, self-nature; only then will you attain to freedom. It is better to die following one`s nature than to live following somebody`s else`s nature, because that will be a pseudo life. To die following one`s nature is beautiful, because that death too will be authentic.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

Now: heaven knows, anything goes.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Of old sat Freedom on the heights The thunders breaking at her feet: Above her shook the starry lights; She heard the torrents meet.