Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the way for the personal encounter with truth, and perhaps the privileged place for the encounter itself with God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.

Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Every virtuous man is free.

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

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

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

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

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

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 know that no one is free, except Zeus.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 and slavery are mental states.

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.