Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Lord Acton

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Edward Teller

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

Edie Brickell

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Edith Hamilton

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Eckhart Tolle

When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of self. This is the ego, a mind-made "me." That mentally constructed self feels incomplete and precarious. That's why fearing and wanting are its predominant emotions and motivating forces.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

Jose Marti

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

Joni Mitchell

We love our lovin'....but not like we love our freedom.

Khalil Gibran

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Khalil Gibran

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Khalil Gibran

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Khalil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Jonathan Swift

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

Lyn Nofziger

As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Lord Byron

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?

Lord Byron

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Lord Kelvin

Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Mahatma Gandhi

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

Mahatma Gandhi

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Mahatma Gandhi

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.