Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Charles Kingsley

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

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

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'.

Edmund Spenser

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Edmund Burke

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Eckhart Tolle

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Eckhart Tolle

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom.

Elie Wiesel

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Elie Wiesel

It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.

Elie Wiesel

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Edward R. Murrow

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward Said

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

E. W. Howe

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

E. W. Howe

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Alan J. Pakula

Most of us live in a safe world. We don't have to fight for our values, we don't have to fight for our freedom, we don't have a sense of injustice.

I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Francine Rivers

I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.

Conor Oberst

I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.

Albert Camus

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.