Quotes About Freedom

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

When religion becomes organised, man ceases to be free. It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority and not violation of integrity.

people are less than whole unless they gather themselves voluntarily into groups of souls in harmony. Gathering themselves to pursue individual, family, and community dreams consistent with their private humanity is what makes them whole; only slaves are gathered by others.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

child labor becomes a label of condemnation in spite of its ancient function as the quickest, most reliable way to human independence—

People individually do best for everyone when they do best for themselves, when they aren't commanded too much or protected against the consequences of their own folly.

Free men and women are often very eccentric.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. Surely this is one of the most radical acts in human history, not the least of its breathtakingly radical assertions being that you must attend for your own good!

Wage-slaves, free in name only, are much cheaper to exploit, and work harder than slaves.

When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.

Ya kendi senaryonuzu yazars?n?z veya bir baÅŸkas?n?n senaryosundan size biçilen rolü oynars?n?z.

Size ezberlemeniz gerektiÄŸi söylenen ÅŸeyleri ezberleyerek özgür olamazs?n?z.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

Construímos uma estilo de vida que depende de que as pessoas continuem fazendo o que lhes mandam fazer por não saberem como dizer a si mesmas o que deve ser feito.

If walled compound schooling were ended, corrupt relationships with universities, textbook publishers, building contractors, bus companies, and other protected suppliers who thrive on a mass captive audience would wither quickly.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief from government surveillance and intimidation if original expressions belonging to THEM are to develop. Without these freedom has no meaning.

I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

The most significant challenge to stability is the perverse impulse toward freedom. You can't control this desire for freedom entirely with threats and punishments; it's more effective if you teach people to doubt the reality of their own perceptions. When the system is working correctly, they censor themselves.

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.