Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahatma Gandhi

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

Mahatma Gandhi

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Mahatma Gandhi

A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.

Mahatma Gandhi

It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

John Adams

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

John Adams

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.

John Adams

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Jimi Hendrix

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Jim Morrison

I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free....

Emma Goldman

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

Emiliano Zapata

The land free, the land free for all, land without overseers and without masters ...

Ralph Nader

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Rajneesh

There is no other revolution except consciousness. It cuts the desires from the very roots and it brings freedom to you.

Rajneesh

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.