Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 21
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Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.Collection: Freedom
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.Collection: Freedom
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.Collection: Freedom
If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get involved with it. Whatever comes, don't worry, just be aware of it.Collection: Freedom
Place is security, space is freedom.Collection: Freedom
Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!Collection: Freedom
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.Collection: Freedom
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.Collection: Freedom
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.Collection: Freedom
As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.Collection: Freedom
A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.Collection: Freedom
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.Collection: Freedom
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.Collection: Freedom
Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.Collection: Freedom
I am not a number, I am a free man!Collection: Freedom
The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.Collection: Freedom
We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.Collection: Freedom
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.Collection: Freedom
Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.Collection: Freedom
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.Collection: Freedom
...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government will provide greater security.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.Collection: Freedom
Having confidence in a free society is to focus on the process of discovery in the marketplace of values rather than to focus on some imposed vision or goal. Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth and typically results in unintended, perverse consequences. Achieving the free society requires courage to think, to talk, and to act - especially when it is easier to do nothing.Collection: Freedom
At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.Collection: Freedom
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.Collection: Freedom
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.Collection: Freedom
We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we know because the known can only be as scary as it already is, whereas the unknown has limitless potential to be terrifying.Collection: Freedom
When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to involuntary servitude. To liberals, compassion seems to be defined by how many people are dependent on the government; to conservatives, it's defined by how many people no longer need help. One promotes dependence, the other freedom, responsibility and achievement.Collection: Freedom
The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others.Collection: Freedom
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke. ... Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.Collection: Freedom
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage... I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.Collection: Freedom
We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.Collection: Freedom
Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeingCollection: Freedom
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.Collection: Freedom
Means and ends are central. If your means are corroded, your ends will be corroded. And if you're fighting to preserve liberty and you use means that eviscerate our liberties, the end will be corroded, too.Collection: Freedom
With education symmetrical and true we will take the dead mass buried by slavery's hand and touch them to life. This beauteous angel, which has always done its work for those on earth, will roll away the stone from the tomb where is buried a race, and my people will come forth to their glory and the amazement of the world.Collection: Freedom
I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.Collection: Freedom
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.Collection: Freedom
My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.Collection: Freedom
I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.'Collection: Freedom
The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.Collection: Freedom
Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.Collection: Freedom
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.Collection: Freedom
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.Collection: Freedom
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.Collection: Freedom