Quotes about freedom
freedom together democracy
Democracy and violence can ill go together. Mahatma Gandhi
freedom democracy sides
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
freedom land feet
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
freedom thoughtful action
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
freedom mistake struggle
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
freedom messengers messages
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
freedom libertarian-party liberty
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.
freedom hate poison
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
freedom believe men
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi
freedom delight able
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
freedom 4th-of-july men
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
freedom attachment people
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected. Francois Hollande
freedom war 4th-of-july
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte
freedom feelings intellectual
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life. Norman Mailer
freedom tyrants democracies-have
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
freedom long forever
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
freedom responsibility bears
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. Oscar Arias
freedom evil good-and-evil
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil. Origen
freedom believe fighting
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge. Oliver Wendell Holmes
freedom hate attachment
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
freedom equality people
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. Octavia Butler
freedom tyrants too-late
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. Emile M. Cioran
freedom long rejection
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
freedom liberty force
The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty. Ellen Key
freedom men restraint
What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. Epictetus
freedom self liberty
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. Epicurus
freedom names vices
Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.
freedom lying intelligent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? Henrik Ibsen
freedom bird want
A forest bird never wants a cage.
freedom truth society
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
freedom bored everyday
When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free... Henri Matisse
freedom artist constraints
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
freedom-of-speech way good-things
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. Herodotus