Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 18
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.Collection: Freedom
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.Collection: Freedom
What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.Collection: Freedom
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters.Collection: Freedom
The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples, which has been won by incalculable sacrifice, and which they must preserve so long as they hope to live as free men.Collection: Freedom
You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people died for. An intact flag is worthless if it no longer stands for freedom. A flag burned to ashes challenges us to remember just exactly what freedom is.Collection: Freedom
It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.Collection: Freedom
How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?Collection: Freedom
Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.Collection: Freedom
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should not be hindered and weighed down by a mechanical servility to such rules.Collection: Freedom
The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.Collection: Freedom
Perhaps freedom from ideas of freedom - is the sweetest freedom of all.Collection: Freedom
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.Collection: Freedom
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.Collection: Freedom
The right to be respected is won by respecting others.Collection: Freedom
The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.Collection: Freedom
Democracy means decision by those concerned.Collection: Freedom
There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.Collection: Freedom
To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.Collection: Freedom
In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.Collection: Freedom
A year ago Guyana became politically free and independent. She assumed the untrammeled right to make her own decisions on what ought to be done or ought not to be done within her border. Since then, hers has also been the right to decide what course she would take and to state her views and opinions positively in the fora of the world. As we celebrate the first anniversary of freedom, it is our duty to take account of what we have achieved or what we have failed to do, to note where we have done well and what we ought to have done better.Collection: Freedom
The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.Collection: Freedom
If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.Collection: Freedom
Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.Collection: Freedom
If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.Collection: Freedom
The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.Collection: Freedom
I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.Collection: Freedom
Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.Collection: Freedom
The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.Collection: Freedom
Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.Collection: Freedom
For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemiesCollection: Freedom
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.Collection: Freedom
Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.Collection: Freedom
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.Collection: Freedom
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.Collection: Freedom
Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want Liberty. Liberty is nothing but uncertainty. It's much easier to have someone tell you where you'll be, what you'll do and who you'll pay tomorrow than to worry about it yourself. The same goes for what you thinkCollection: Freedom
Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.Collection: Freedom
If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.Collection: Freedom
You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.Collection: Freedom
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.Collection: Freedom
. . .nothing is more important than freedom. Nothing is more sacred than freedom. Nothing is greater than freedom. Nothing. . .can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom. Freedom. . .is all that makes men great. It is all men have to live for. Without freedom, what good is life?Collection: Freedom
Stop. Stop everything. Then you will realize you are the freedom you have been searching for.Collection: Freedom
Freedom means choosing your burden.Collection: Freedom
The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.Collection: Freedom
In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.Collection: Freedom