Freedom Quotes - Page 66

Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons, new chains. Response is out of freedom, hence it brings more freedom. Reaction is out of the past; you act according to your memories, built-in by your experiences, conditionings. You react not to the present, not in the present. You don`t reflect the real situation as it is; you go on interpreting it according to your past, your past experiences. The man who is awake is like a mirror: he reflects that which is the case. HE IS AWAKE.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.

I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Free men are not equal and equal men are not free.

Do not degrade me in the military uniform I wear for it represents the love I have for my country, and the sacrifices myself and millions of other American soldiers make everyday to protect the freedom we enjoy by living in the United States of America.