Quotes about free
freedom men people
What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things. Marcus Tullius Cicero
freedom liberty tyranny
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
freedom evil hard
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
freedom libertarian fangs
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
freedom employment true-freedom
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. Georg C. Lichtenberg
freedom men hats
Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat. Friedrich Nietzsche
freedom men effort
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
freedom enemy politics
Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.
freedom democracies-have desire
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.
freedom responsibility responsible
Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
freedom government self
We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance. Gerald R. Ford
freedom sacrifice compassion
Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?... Let us show that we can temper together those opposite elements of liberty and restraint into one consistent whole. Let us set an example for the world of a law-abiding America glorying in its freedom as well as its respect for law.
freedom real men
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately. Freedom implies really, doesn't it, the total emptying of the mind. Completely to empty the whole content of the mind-that is real freedom. Freedom is not mere revolt from circumstances, which again breeds other circumstances, other environmental influences, which enslave the mind. We are talking about a freedom that comes naturally, easily, unasked for, when the mind is capable of functioning at its highest level. Jiddu Krishnamurti
freedom self giving
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that alone will give them eternal happiness, will give them the unconditional realization of Self.
freedom inspire enlightenment
Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.
freedom
Freedom from something is not freedom.
freedom inspire mind
Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.
freedom two being-free
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
freedom inspire guru
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is.
free-love contradiction term
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms. Gilbert K. Chesterton
freedom inspirational-life responsibility
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
freedom history discipline
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert
freedom-of-speech speech free-speech
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech. Larry the Cable Guy
freedom tactics states
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers. Pablo Picasso
freedom artist focus
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
freedom artist expression
...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.
freedom wings
I always preferred having wings to having things. Patricia Schroeder
freedom kissing anarchy
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy. Oscar Wilde
freedom land water
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. Lydia M. Child
freedom understanding democracy
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. Jawaharlal Nehru
free-life standing activity
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. Herbert Marcuse
freedom integrity confusion
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents. Herbert Hoover
freedom democracy ladders
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.