Freedom Quotes - Page 50

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Freedom of connection with any application to any party is the fundamental social basis of the internet. And now, is the basis of the society built on the internet.

The secret of freedom, courage.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere.

The secret to freedom is to realize that you don’t have to believe your mind. You don’t have to believe your story. You don’t have to believe that voice in your head. You don’t have to believe your own thinking. You can simply observe it and say, “Thank you for sharing,” and then take the necessary action you’re scared to take anyway.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself, and I grant to every other human being, not the right because it is his right but instead of granting I declare that it is his right, to attack every doctrine that I maintain, to answer every argument that I may urge in other words, he must have absolute freedom of speech.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.