The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 119
Democracy means decision by those concerned.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Errico Malatesta
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.
Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.
Harry Belafonte
The Constitution under which we live and which has not only blessed us but has become a model for other constitutions, is our God-inspired national safeguard ensuring freedom and liberty, justice and equality before the law.
Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.
Orson Scott Card
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most valuable to investigators in physiology and medicine are derived.
Claude Bernard
Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind.
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
Henepola Gunaratana
I have a dream... I have a dream today... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true.
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
Katharine Graham
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
The internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
Zooey Deschanel
