Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 35

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Image of Benjamin Franklin
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Khalil Gibran
Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Hannah Arendt
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Paul Gauguin
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
- Paul Gauguin
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Image of Emma Goldman
True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.
- Emma Goldman
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of John Green
...And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green
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Image of Felix Frankfurter
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
- Felix Frankfurter
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Image of John Kenneth Galbraith
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Image of Margaret Fuller
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
- Margaret Fuller
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Charles de Gaulle
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
- Charles de Gaulle
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Image of Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
- Felix Frankfurter
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Khalil Gibran
you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
- Khalil Gibran
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Image of Jose Ortega y Gasset
The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Viktor E. Frankl
One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Hannah Arendt
... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
- Hannah Arendt
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Image of Khalil Gibran
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
- Khalil Gibran
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No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Milton Friedman
Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
- Milton Friedman
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I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.
- Milton Friedman
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I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only law can give us freedom.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Milton Friedman
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.
- Milton Friedman
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.
- Franz Grillparzer
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German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
- Franz Grillparzer
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You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of John Green
Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
- John Green
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