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If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.Collection: Freedom
The revolt against freedom, which can be traced back so far, is associated with a revolt against reason that [gives] sentiment primacy to evaluate actions and experiences according to the subjective emotions with which they are associated.Collection: Freedom
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.Collection: Freedom
The paradox of the culture wars is that they have made celebrities out of some artists who would otherwise vanish. Censorship has become a growth industry. This may be the best argument, in the end, for unfettered freedom of expression.Collection: Freedom
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.Collection: Freedom
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.Collection: Freedom
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.Collection: Freedom
I want a society free of human traffickingCollection: Freedom
Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.Collection: Freedom
The dignity of man is in free choice.Collection: Freedom
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.Collection: Freedom
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.Collection: Freedom
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.Collection: Freedom
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.Collection: Freedom
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.Collection: Freedom
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...Collection: Freedom
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.Collection: Freedom
The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit.Collection: Freedom
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.Collection: Freedom
She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.Collection: Freedom
How do we work together? For if we want liberation for women, then we're committed to building a society in which these distances--of class and economics--dissolve, and all our authentic differences--cultures, personalities, sexualities, talents, and aspirations--emerge and are equally nourished.Collection: Freedom
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.Collection: Freedom
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.Collection: Freedom
The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.Collection: Freedom
Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.Collection: Freedom
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.Collection: Freedom
Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.Collection: Freedom
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.Collection: Freedom
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.Collection: Freedom
Free thought, free speech and a free press.Collection: Freedom
Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.Collection: Freedom
Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.Collection: Freedom
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.Collection: Freedom
Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.Collection: Freedom
My Brain is the key that sets me free.Collection: Freedom
I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.Collection: Freedom
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom comes in individual packages.Collection: Freedom
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.Collection: Freedom
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.Collection: Freedom
A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.Collection: Freedom
There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.Collection: Freedom
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.Collection: Freedom
Where there is no freedom there can be no morality.Collection: Freedom
A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.Collection: Freedom
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.Collection: Freedom