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Quotes About Freedom

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.
~ Ernest Istook
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
~ Ernest Istook
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
~ Ernest Istook
Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are willing victims to the spell." -- Ernest K. Gann
~ Ernest K. Gann
Capitalism subordinates men to machines instead of using machines to liberate men from the burden of mechanical and repetitive work.
~ Ernest Mandel
A lion shorn of his strength, an eagle robbed of his freedom, or a dove bereft of his mate, all die, it is said, of a broken heart; and who will aver that this grim bandit could bear the threefold brunt, heart-whole? This only I know, that when the morning dawned, he was lying there still in his position of calm repose, but his spirit was gone-the old king-wolf was dead.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
~ Ernestine Rose
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes and yet she will be woman still.
~ Ernestine Rose
En este monasterio somos viajeros que viajan sin equipaje. Deportados que regresan a la patria. Liberados que no traen nada de las celdas en que estuvieron o de los campos de concentración.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
İfade özgürlüÄŸü bir mitten baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸil.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
Hay que luchar por cada bocanada de aire y enviar la muerte al carajo.
~ Ernesto Che Guevarra
Hasta la victoria siempre! Patria o muerte!
~ Ernesto Guevara
O siamo capaci di sconfiggere le opinioni contrarie con la discussione, o dobbiamo lasciarle esprimere. Non è possibile sconfiggere le opinioni con la forza, perché questo blocca il libero sviluppo dell'intelligenza.
~ Ernesto Guevara
They moved with the insouciance of those that have nothing to do, two aimless characters in search of a story that would deign to have them, but not in a hurry to commit to any particular type of narrative.
~ Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Today only the person who no longer believes in a happy ending, only he who has consciously renounced it, is able to live. A happy century does not exist; but there are moments of happiness, and there is freedom in the moment.
~ Ernst Junger
The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer
~ Ernst Junger
Freedom is based on the anarch's awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. "A leap from this bridge will set me free.
~ Ernst Junger
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
~ Ernst Junger
Man is born violent but is kept in check by the people around him. If he nevertheless manages to throw off his fetters, he can count on applause, for everyone recognizes himself in him. Deeply ingrained, nay, buried dreams come true. The unlimited radiates its magic even upon crime, which, not coincidentally, is the main source of entertainment in Eumeswil. I, as an anarch, not uninterested but disinterested, can understand that. Freedom has a wide range and more facets than a diamond.
~ Ernst Junger
Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.
~ Ernst Junger
The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file
~ Ernst Junger
I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.
~ Ernst Junger
I would like to repeat that I do not fancy myself as anything special for being an anarch. My emotions are no different from those of the average man. Perhaps I have pondered this relationship a bit more carefully and am conscious of a freedom to which "basically" everybody is entitled – a freedom that more or less dicates his actions.
~ Ernst Junger