Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 40
Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
C. A. Bartol
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
Ramana Maharshi
Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.
Adrian Bell
When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Now: heaven knows, anything goes.
Cole Porter
A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.