Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
Top Inspiring Freedom Quotes to Live By - page 85
In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?
Bruce Sterling
When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor
Terry Goodkind
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.
James Mackintosh
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner
Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.
Lech Walesa
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.
Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work.
The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I'm not giving up, and I'm not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.
Some people say I make mistakes. I just say that this is the secret of enjoying life. I hate monotony. Why don't they leave me freedom of choice? People want to impose choices which aren't necessarily mine. That's the mistake people make.
Bode Miller
To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!
