Freedom Quotes - Page 92

If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.

Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.

Shackled heart, free spirit.--Whoever binds his heart tightly and imprisons it may indulge his spirit in many liberties: I have already said that once. But no one believes me unless he already knows.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

Pain is part of the price of freedom.

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

The structure that is currently in place, inside government, forcing government employees to pay union dues, even if they don't want to be in a union -- that is fundamentally unconstitutional and it is against the American system of freedom of choice.

This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom.

I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Freedom of speech, the right to dissent, the right to protest, that is what America is about. And politically every leader in this country and every American has got to stand up against any form of violence. That is unacceptable.

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

In order to improve the condition of mankind all men must be given the certainty of security through the exchange of safeguards, the assurance of prosperity through an exchange of resources, the reality of freedom through the free movement of information, persons and ideas.