Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 44
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.
Ibn Warraq
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'
Richard Reti
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
Moshe Sharett
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
Felix Frankfurter
If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
Chaka Khan
