Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 16
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I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!Collection: Freedom
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.Collection: Freedom
Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.Collection: Freedom
Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.Collection: Freedom
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.Collection: Freedom
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.Collection: Freedom
Marcuse wrote: "Perhaps an accident may alter the situation, but unless the recognition of what is being done and what is being prevented subverts the consciousness and the behavior of man, not even a catastrophe will bring about the change.".Collection: Freedom
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.Collection: Freedom
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.Collection: Freedom
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.Collection: Freedom
Without Virtue there can be no libertyCollection: Freedom
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.Collection: Freedom
The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.Collection: Freedom
Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.Collection: Freedom
Now: heaven knows, anything goes.Collection: Freedom
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it.Collection: Freedom
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.Collection: Freedom
I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.Collection: Freedom
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.Collection: Freedom
The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentionsCollection: Freedom
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.Collection: Freedom
But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?Collection: Freedom
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.Collection: Freedom
Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.Collection: Freedom
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.Collection: Freedom
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.Collection: Freedom
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.Collection: Freedom
We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.Collection: Freedom
He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.Collection: Freedom
I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.Collection: Freedom
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.Collection: Freedom
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.Collection: Freedom
It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.Collection: Freedom
In my soul, I am free.Collection: Freedom
The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.Collection: Freedom
Free men set themselves free.Collection: Freedom
The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.Collection: Freedom
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.Collection: Freedom
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.Collection: Freedom
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.Collection: Freedom
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.Collection: Freedom
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.Collection: Freedom
Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.Collection: Freedom
The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.Collection: Freedom
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.Collection: Freedom