Freedom Quotes - Page 60

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

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.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.