Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stockwell Day

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stokely Carmichael

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Peace Pilgrim

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Peter Ustinov

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Pema Chodron

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Pema Chodron

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Pema Chodron

We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.

Philip Pullman

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Rabindranath Tagore

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as a person thinks; they are free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Shelby Steele

Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves.

Lee Kuan Yew

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Neil McDonald

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

Stephen Covey

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values.

Stephen Covey

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.

Viktor E. Frankl

No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.

Utah Phillips

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free...

Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Marcus Aurelius

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marc Chagall

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Thomas a Kempis

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.