Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Ian Stewart

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Hugo Black

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

Hugo Black

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Hugh Downs

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Hosea Ballou

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Horace

We are free to yield to truth.

Horace

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Hannah Arendt

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Hannah Arendt

Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.

Hannah Arendt

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Evan Wolfson

Gay people want the freedom to marry for the same reasons non-gay people do.

Michael O'Brien

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

George Bernard Shaw

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

Franz Kafka

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Franz Kafka

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Erich Fromm

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason.

Lord Byron

Even I / Regained my freedom with a sigh.

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Mike Wallace

Because I think you will want to have the freedom that you have now. But you're going to need more money to have the freedom that you now have.

Mary Gauthier

The most important thing I got from philosophy was that there are no answers. There's freedom in knowing that you don't have to know it all ... which is why to me a song should end with a question, not an answer.

Pablo Neruda

Now, on the road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the voice of the water that had taught me to sing.

Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live.

Casey Wilson

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

Kevin Smith

There's much more freedom on the page. You can invoke obscure things that, in a movie, an exec will take out to make it palatable to the mainstream.