Quotes About Freedom

Espero que la salida sea alegre y espero no volver nunca más.

feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?

Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?

Zaljubi se u sebe. Zaljubi se u život. I poslije se zaljubi u koga god ho?eš.

Feet what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

It's Friday; you ain't got no job… you ain't got shit to do

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!

Apparve come una scellerata con la presunzione di contrapporsi ad un potere che tutto stritola, sì, ma perdona anche ogni peccato e solleva da ogni responsabilità, e compresi che questa era la vera ragione con cui la folla era stata indotta a rinunciare alla libertà e ad arrendersi al male, perché colpa ed espiazione esistono soltanto nella libertà

Non c'è dittatura senza fedeltà, la fedeltà è la solida roccia sulla quale si erige lo Stato totalitario, che senza di essa affonderebbe nella sabbia; per la democrazia è necessaria invece una certa mancanza di fedeltà, una attitudine più svolazzante, più irresoluta, più fantasiosa.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.

invero gli dèi mi avevano fatto dono del privilegio più grande che mente umana possa concepire, la sublime libertà di odiare quelli che ci hanno messo al mondo

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Nur im Irrenhaus sind wir noch frei. Nur im Irrenhaus durfen wir noch denken. In der Freiheit sind unsere Gedanken Sprengstoff.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.