Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Malcolm X

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

Malcolm X

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Malcolm X

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Malcolm X

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Malcolm X

A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom.

Malcolm X

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

Malcolm X

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Malcolm X

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Mahatma Gandhi

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Mahatma Gandhi

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

Mahatma Gandhi

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

John Adams

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

John Adams

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

James Russell Lowell

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

James Russell Lowell

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

James Russell Lowell

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

James Russell Lowell

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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 Engels

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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.