Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Margaret Chase Smith

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

Pablo Picasso

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Pablo Picasso

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

Pablo Picasso

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Patricia Schroeder

I always preferred having wings to having things.

Oscar Wilde

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Lydia M. Child

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.

Mark Twain

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.

Mary McCarthy

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Mark Twain

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

John Green

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Patti Smith

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Martha Gellhorn

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Marshall McLuhan

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

Michel de Montaigne

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Michel de Montaigne

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Michel de Montaigne

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

Michael Kimmelman

The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.

Mark Twain

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Mark Twain

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Mark Twain

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Marianne Williamson

God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.

Marianne Williamson

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Frank Murphy

Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Harry Frankfurt

It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.