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One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.Collection: Freedom
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.Collection: Freedom
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.Collection: Freedom
The cry for freedom is a sign of suppression. It will not cease to ring as long as man feels himself captive. As diverse as the cries for freedom may be, basically they all express one and the same thing: The intolerability of the rigidity of the organism and of the machine-like institutions which create a sharp conflict with the natural feelings for life. Not until there is a social order in which all cries for freedom subside will man have overcome his biological and social crippling, will he have attained genuine freedom.Collection: Freedom
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.Collection: Freedom
The Constitution is not a law, but it empowers the people to make laws... The Constitution tells us what shall not be a lawful tender... The legislature has ceded up to us the privilege of enacting such laws as are not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States... The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States.Collection: Freedom
Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.Collection: Freedom
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.Collection: Freedom
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.Collection: Freedom
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.Collection: Freedom
When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.Collection: Freedom
Government is best which governs leastCollection: Freedom
Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.Collection: Freedom
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.Collection: Freedom
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.Collection: Freedom
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free.Collection: Freedom
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.Collection: Freedom
There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty.Collection: Freedom
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.Collection: Freedom
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.Collection: Freedom
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.Collection: Freedom
The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.Collection: Freedom
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.Collection: Freedom
When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.Collection: Freedom
Let no man break the laws of the land, for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land.Collection: Freedom
And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is justifiable before me. Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land.Collection: Freedom
it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.Collection: Freedom
This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.Collection: Freedom
Freedom exists only with power.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.Collection: Freedom
So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.Collection: Freedom
Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.Collection: Freedom
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?Collection: Freedom
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.Collection: Freedom
If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.Collection: Freedom
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.Collection: Freedom
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.Collection: Freedom
Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.Collection: Freedom
Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.Collection: Freedom
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.Collection: Freedom
I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.Collection: Freedom
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Collection: Freedom
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.Collection: Freedom
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the worldCollection: Freedom
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.Collection: Freedom
Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.Collection: Freedom
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.Collection: Freedom