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Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.Collection: Freedom
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.Collection: Freedom
Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.Collection: Freedom
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.Collection: Freedom
The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.Collection: Freedom
Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.Collection: Freedom
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.Collection: Freedom
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.Collection: Freedom
I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending.Collection: Freedom
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.Collection: Freedom
Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.Collection: Freedom
I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.Collection: Freedom
Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.Collection: Freedom
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.Collection: Freedom
There is no road to freedom, freedom is the road.Collection: Freedom
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.Collection: Freedom
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.Collection: Freedom
Who we are looking for is who is looking.Collection: Freedom
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!Collection: Freedom
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.Collection: Freedom
Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.Collection: Freedom
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.Collection: Freedom
Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.Collection: Freedom
Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!Collection: Freedom
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.Collection: Freedom
Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!Collection: Freedom
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!Collection: Freedom
Our freedom is our sacred cow; no one should touch it! We must be very pious in this holy matter.Collection: Freedom
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.Collection: Freedom
When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!Collection: Freedom
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earlthy blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! . . . Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.Collection: Freedom
Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.Collection: Freedom
The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.Collection: Freedom
Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.Collection: Freedom
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.Collection: Freedom
Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.Collection: Freedom
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.Collection: Freedom
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.Collection: Freedom
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.Collection: Freedom
Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.Collection: Freedom
A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.Collection: Freedom
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.Collection: Freedom
Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.Collection: Freedom
Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.Collection: Freedom
I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.Collection: Freedom
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.Collection: Freedom