Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 42
This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
Vaclav Havel
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.
Chuck Baldwin
To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.
Timothy Shriver
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.
At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
Ibn Khaldun
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
Rosa Luxemburg
People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.
Konstantin Ushinsky
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.
Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
John Philpot Curran
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
Sri Aurobindo
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Paul Gauguin
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
