Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

Mercedes Lackey

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

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.

John Milton

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

John Milton

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Norman Cousins

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Nina Simone

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Nina Simone

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

Mike Tyson

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Miguel de Cervantes

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Neil Gaiman

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

John W. Gardner

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

John Steinbeck

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

John Steinbeck

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Terence

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Nicolas Chamfort

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

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.

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 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.