Best 5891 quotes in «freedom quotes» category

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

`Freedom` means freedom from the mind. Then you are simply in a silence, and in that silence you melt, you merge with the whole. And to melt and merge with the whole is to be holy. Not by fasting, not by torturing, but by becoming one with the whole, one becomes holy.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.