Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose Macaulay

There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.

Rose Macaulay

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.

Rick James

I had always been a free spirit, and always gotten what I wanted.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it, we have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

Samuel Adams

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave....

T. Harv Eker

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

T. Harv Eker

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Wallace Stevens

Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.

Vladimir Lenin

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Vladimir Lenin

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Vladimir Lenin

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

Vladimir Lenin

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

Vladimir Lenin

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Vladimir Lenin

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Walter Bagehot

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Walter Cronkite

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

Walter Cronkite

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Virginia Woolf

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

Salman Rushdie

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Salman Rushdie

Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is, 'Freedom is Indivisible,' you can't slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hedbo. ... But the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

Salman Rushdie

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

William Cowper

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

William Cowper

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Wayne LaPierre

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

Wayne Dyer

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.