Quotes About Freedom

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

Much of late modernity assumes that dependence on God is a mark of human immaturity and an obstacle to human freedom. The life of Karol Wojty?a and his accomplishment as Pope John Paul II suggest a dramatic, alternative possibility: that a man who has been seized and transformed by the "more excellent way" can bend the curve of history so that freedom's cause is advanced.

European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular. That conviction has had crucial, indeed lethal, consequences or European public life and European culture.

If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Il ne s'agit pas d'édifier à grand-peine des institutions libérales, il s'agit d'avoir encore des hommes libres à mettre dedans.

Tous les dictateurs, à toutes les époques de l'Histoire, ont invoqué la justice sociale, c'est toujours au nom de l'égalité qu'on a étranglé la Liberté, il ne peut y avoir d'égalité que sous un maître absolu.

Il faut beaucoup de prodigues pour faire un peuple généreux, beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre, et beaucoup de jeunes fous pour faire un peuple héroïque

Kay?ts?zl?k dili geçersiz k?l?yor,iÅŸaretleri anla??lmaz hale getiriyor.Sab?rl?s?n ama beklemiyorsun, özgürsün ama seçmiyorsun,müsaitsin ama hiçbir ÅŸey seni harekete geçirmiyor. Hiçbir ÅŸey istemiyor,hiçbir ÅŸey talep etmiyor, hiçbir ÅŸeyi dayatm?yorsun.Hiç dinlemeden duyuyor,hiç bakmadan görüyorsun.

I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?

Un sim? al libert??ii absolute. Un sentiment asem?n?tor po?i avea doar în mormânt ?i la WC. Interesant e c? ambele au aproximativ acelea?i dimensiuni.

being alone is better

being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I said to myself 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me--shapes and idea so near to my-- so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.' I decided to start anew to strip away what I had been taught...