Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

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.

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.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

True obedience is true freedom.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.

We are free to yield to truth.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world

We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups.

We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights.