Quotes about freedom
freedom discipline mind
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline. Mortimer Adler
freedom historical tasks
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... Paulo Freire
freedom enemy independence
An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence. Petro Poroshenko
freedom democracy weapons
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness. Edward Teller
freedom prisoner feels
You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself. Edie Brickell
freedom responsibility libertarian-party
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. Edith Hamilton
freedom mean self
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces. Eckhart Tolle
freedom people liberty
People demand freedom only when they have no power. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
freedom lying intelligent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? Henrik Ibsen
freedom bird want
A forest bird never wants a cage.
freedom truth society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
freedom bored everyday
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free... Henri Matisse
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
freedom feet steps
Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward. James Russell Lowell
freedom law atheism
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
freedom-of-speech firsts constitution
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment. Larry Flynt
freedom-of-speech speech you-like-it
Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.
freedom justice grace
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God. Friedrich Durrenmatt
freedom recognition
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. Friedrich Engels
freedom men long
Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends. Friedrich August von Hayek
freedom exercise men
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.
freedom equality doe
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
freedom government our-generation
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
freedom balance doe
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
freedom mean individual-effort
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
freedom principles advantage
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
freedom justice mirages
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
freedom differences forbidden
Whatever is not forbidden is permitted. Friedrich Schiller
freedom men born
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.
freedom voice libertarian-party
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
freedom
Freedom exists only with power.
freedom errors
Where there is much freedom there is much error.
freedom opportunity average
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place. Franklin D. Roosevelt