Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quintus Ennius

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

Quentin Crisp

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

Plutarch

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Philo

Every virtuous man is free.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Tertullian

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Shelby Steele

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Peace Pilgrim

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Peter Ustinov

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Pema Chodron

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Pema Chodron

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Pema Chodron

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Philip Pullman

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Joss Whedon

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don't care, I'm still free You can't take the sky from me

Joss Whedon

You can't take the sky from me.

Kofi Annan

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

Thomas Merton

A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses.

Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Stanley Baldwin

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Leo Tolstoy

The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

Leo McKern

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Leo Buscaglia

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Karl Popper

It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.