Quotes About Freedom

When you're a slave you dream of either owning slaves or freeing them.

If we accept that we cannot change other people, or that we cannot change how we ourselves might be contributing to an unhealthy dynamic, then surely the solution is to make a bid for freedom?

If someone asks for their freedom, you got to give it to them; otherwise you become their jailer.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.

The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

if we are serious about creating a truly free society, we must take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman, and child in our country basic economic rights—the right to quality health care, the right to good education, the right to decent and affordable housing, the right to a secure retirement, and the right to live in a clean environment. And the right to a secure, well-paying, and meaningful job.

My answer to all these questions is that Americans are not nearly so free as we think we are, or as we should be. To achieve the genuine freedom to which we are entitled as human beings, we cannot be satisfied with political democracy alone—especially at a time when democracy itself is under fierce attack. We need economic democracy every bit as much as we need political democracy.

There is no real freedom without economic justice.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Cause what good is this freedom, if I ain't free to love you?

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

How can one remain free of every weakness, above all of the most deadly, of love?

It's sensible, anyone can understand it. It's easy. You're not an exploiter, so you can grasp it. It's a good thing for you, find out more about it. The stupid call it stupid and the squalid call it squalid. It is against squalor and against stupidity. the exploiters call it a crime But we know: It is the end of crime. It is not madness, but The end of madness. It is not the riddle But the solution. It is the simple thing So hard to achieve. -"Praise of Communism

Sanotaan: rajusti syöksyvä virta on väkivaltainen. Kukaan ei sano: virtaa kahlitseva uoma on väkivaltainen.

Hvale nam život velikana duha Što žive, prazna stomaka, rad znanja U kolibi gde pacov miša ganja - Za takve gatke ja baš nemam sluha! Nek živi skromno kome je to san! Dojadiše mi (me? nama) te pri?e. Od Vavilona dovde, gde je pti?e Što bi tu hranu podnelo i dan? Šta tu sloboda vredi? Nisam slep: U blagostanju tek život je lep.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.