Quotes about free
freedom thinking victory
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it. Karl Popper
freedom political promise
We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.
freedom passion opportunity
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. Lord Acton
freedom democracies-have minorities
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
freedom thinking government
As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom. Lyn Nofziger
freedom men evil
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. Louis D. Brandeis
freedom blow arms
Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought? Lord Byron
freedom cynical dignity
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
freedom criticism helping
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it. Lord Kelvin
freedom mean independence
Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom hands jail
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
freedom minorities majority
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
free-love animosity
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.
freedom liberty birth
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
freedom independent public-opinion
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
freedom men arms
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.
freedom weapons weak
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
freedom democracies-have democracy
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
freedom sheep people
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
freedom men thinking
In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.
freedom together democracy
Democracy and violence can ill go together.
freedom democracy sides
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
freedom land feet
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
freedom thoughtful action
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
freedom mistake struggle
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
freedom messengers messages
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
freedom libertarian-party liberty
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
freedom hate poison
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
freedom believe men
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi
freedom delight able
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
freedom 4th-of-july men
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
freedom feelings intellectual
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. Norman Mailer
freedom tyrants democracies-have
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.