Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Bob Dylan

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

Bob Dylan

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free...

Bob Dylan

There is nothing so stable as change.

Bob Dylan

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.

Arthur Schopenhauer

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Bruce Bartlett

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

Gary Payton

We're going to have to play freely and open.

We knew we were going to have to make our free throws to win.

We let them have too many free throws. How can you win a game when you give them that many opportunities to get points?

Arnold J. Toynbee

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Dennis Kucinich

There's a type of freedom that occurs when everything that you've believed in and worked for is shattered, because then you have the opportunity to rebuild and to put yourself back together in a new way.

Dennis Kucinich

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

Deepak Chopra

When you are completely free from boundaries, you don't have to have a huge number of material things. You already own something far more precious. You own yourself.

Deepak Chopra

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Edward Everett

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Edward Gibbon

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

Kurt Busiek

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldn't like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

Lena Olin

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.