Freedom Quotes - Page 47

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Profits are the driving force of the market economy. The greater the profits, the better the needs of the consumers are supplied... He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.

Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.

The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

Only law can give us freedom.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.