Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only law can give us freedom.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jim Morrison

I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free....

Eric Thomas

If you're going to be free! You're going to have to free YOURSELF!

Emma Goldman

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

Emiliano Zapata

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...

serve as the steward of the rights, liberties and freedoms of all Americans for generations to come.

At the end of the game, that was just Ryan trying to get to the free throw line. We wanted to get him on the line, shooting a one-and-one or maybe two.

That means we don't have freedom of speech anymore.

That's a sign of a championship team ? to hit free throws in the clutch. That wins games, and that was the big key.

Chris Kaman

Every time you turned around, there was a foul. Free throws, free throws. Maybe one or two baskets, then free throws again. It just slowed the whole game down, big time.

Ayn Rand

Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Benjamin Cardozo

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

He was telling me I have gotten a free prescription drug card.

Andre Agassi

He's playing a lot smarter, ... which doesn't give you those free points that make the difference.

Adlai Stevenson

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.

To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.