Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Philip Wylie

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Larkin

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

Philip Larkin

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

Lech Walesa

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

John Stuart Mill

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

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.

John Stuart Mill

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

James K. Polk

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

Martin Luther

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

Mortimer Adler

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Paulo Freire

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

Petro Poroshenko

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Marianne Moore

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Terence

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Mignon McLaughlin

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

John Ruskin

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

John Quincy Adams

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

Mark Twain

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Mason Cooley

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

Mason Cooley

Freedom is the moment between sleep and waking before selfhood and the world return.

Michael Collins

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Mencius

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

Mencius

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Michel Foucault

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.