Quotes About Freedom

Boredom with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Man's inclination to justice makes democracy possible; but man's capacity for injustice makes it necessary.' The optimism we need to prevent ourselves from destroying our own democratic freedoms and, indeed, our own human habitat must be based on reasoned pessimism.

So sleep now, without fear for your life, and if you should ever manage to get out of prison, keep in mind that the purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Where a boy runs he never forgets.

Règle révolutionnaire n°54 : L'anarchie est source de créativité. Délivrés de la pression sociale, les gens entreprennent tout naturellement d'inventer et de créer, de rechercher la beauté et l'intelligence, de communiquer entre eux de leur mieux. Dans un bon terreau, même les plus petites graines donnent de grands arbres et de beaux fruits.

I side with the West because there is an abyss between totalitarianism and democracy, an obvious fact of which we must never lose sight.

When any of us surfs the Web, when we do a search or make a purchase, or even when a Turkish, Egyptian, or Russian dissident communicates via Skype or FaceTime, we leave behind us fingerprints that Big Brother will use in any way that pleases him, whether it is to cash in or clamp down.

There is a gentleness, a lightness, an element of freedom and, in a word, of civilization, that makes this country one of the few countries in the world where, despite everything, you can still breathe freely.

A number of the keepers of knowledge, myself included, put little store in asceticism. How can the spirit soar freely if we keep our bodies in chains?

Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nevertheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear. Maybe I did write our story to be free of it, even if I never can be.

Toda generación tiene el deber de rechazar lo que sus padres esperan de ella. En

Pero la acción no se limita a llevar a cabo lo que he pensado y decidido previamente. Surge de una fuente propia, y es tan independiente como lo es mi pensamiento y lo son mis decisiones.

Schalftrunken, farbentrunken, freiheitstrunken - ich weiß nicht, wo ich bin und wo wir fahren. Ich habe vergessen, wo ich herkomme.

Nothing weighed heavily

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.

The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.