Freedom Quotes - Page 20

Every country has the government it deserves.

Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.