Famous Quotes & Sayings

Langston Hughes

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

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.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

Mahatma Gandhi

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Mahatma Gandhi

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Karl Kraus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

Julius Nyerere

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.

Joyce Cary

The principal fact of life is the free mind.