Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Margaret Fuller

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Marcus Garvey

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Michael Bloomberg

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Peggy Noonan

We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Marianne Moore

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Max Frisch

The dignity of man is in free choice.

Max Frisch

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Maya Angelou

Don't let the man bring you down.

Maya Angelou

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Matt Taibbi

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Meg Greenfield

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Maximilien Robespierre

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Max Stirner

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Patricia Clarkson

Even though I'm a free spirit, I like to keep my friends and my lovers separate. I have extraordinary friends, but I don't want to see them naked.

Patricia Briggs

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

Pablo Casals

We are not free to walk on our neighbor's toes.

Plato

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Plato

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Philip Wylie

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Larkin

No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

Philip Larkin

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Lech Walesa

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Mignon McLaughlin

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Mignon McLaughlin

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

John Ruskin

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

John Quincy Adams

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

John Milton

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.