Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 18
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
Frances Wright
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
Emiliano Zapata
The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.
Peter Kropotkin
The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.
Hans Hartung
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
If everything is noted, all your emotional difficulties will disappear. When you feel happy, don't get involved in happiness. When you feel sad, don't get involved with it. Whatever comes, don't worry, just be aware of it.
Dipa Ma
I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
Langston Hughes
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
Isaiah Berlin
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country.
Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.
Andrew Wilkow
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
Lewis Goldberg
Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
Naomi Klein
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White
