Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 59
Resolve and thou art free.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine with bondage and restraint;
And with remembrance of the greater grief
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Louisa May Alcott
To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Mercedes Lackey
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Edith Wharton
Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.
Alan Keyes
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
Will Durant
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.
Paul Krugman
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of getting cut off. Scholars should write, at least sometimes, for the general public.
Martha C. Nussbaum
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
