Freedom Quotes - Page 90

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

We still can't control the consequences our choices will bring. Not only do we want freedom of choice, but we also want a guarantee that whatever we choose will be exactly as we envisioned it.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery.

Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.

I am not a number, I am a free man!

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

So keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds.

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Freedom is not enough.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.