Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Grillparzer

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Franz Grillparzer

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

Franz Grillparzer

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Jack Kemp

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Thomas Campbell

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,/ And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciusko fell!

Candice Millard

'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

He told the woman that he was in the neighborhood offering free breast exams.

Jim Boeheim

He's won more games with last-second shots, free throws and play-making than any player we've ever had. It's not even close.

He's why I practice free throws so hard. That's why I work so hard in practice every day.

Evan Wolfson

Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.

Games are won and lost at the free throw line. And that's what happened to us. We were just 6-of-18 from the line tonight. That was the game right there.

Michael O'Brien

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

George Bernard Shaw

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Franz Kafka

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Erich Fromm

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

Erich Fromm

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Because the place is ours, we have the freedom to make it look like we want it to look. Plus this location is great, because we're right in the middle of things, but because we're in the back of the building, it's more peaceful.

Harriet Tubman

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

Harriet Tubman

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Harry Belafonte

Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

Hans Bender

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Harry Browne

Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one -- but there is a price.