Quotes About Freedom

It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. The condition of the colored man within our borders may become a source of anxiety, to say the least. But he was brought to our shores by compulsion, and he now should be considered as having as good a right to remain here as any other class of our citizens.

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.

The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.

The Bible is the anchor of our liberties

No political party can or ought to exist when one of its cornerstones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

But can I really will anything? At this moment I feel the pleasure of being stone, the sun warms me, the wind makes acceptable this adjustment of my body, I have no intention of ceasing to be a stone. Why? Because I like it. So then I too am slave to a passion, which advises me against wanting freely its opposite. However, willing, I could will. And yet I do not. How much freer am I than a stone?

And you," I said with childish impertinence, "never commit errors?" "Often," he answered. "But instead of conceiving only one, I imagine many, so I become the slave of none.

Heden ten dage verstaat men onder vrijheid echter de mogelijkheid om de geloofsovertuiging en de mening te kiezen die je het meest aanstaat en die allemaal inwisselbaar zijn - en het maakt de staat niet uit of je vrijmetselaar, christen, Jood of een volgeling van de Grote Turk bent. Zo wordt men onverschillig jegens de Waarheid.

Minek olyan könyvet írni, amiért börtön járhat, ha egyszer azok, akik könyveket olvasnak, úgyis eleve republikánusok, a diktátor támogatói pedig írástudatlan parasztok, akiknek úgy pottyant ölébe Isten kegyelmébÅ'l a választójog?

It's hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum

WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE: [after finding the secret room of books in the tower] How many more rooms? Ah! How many more books? No one should be forbidden to consult these books freely. ADSO OF MELIC: Perhaps they are thought to be too precious, too fragile. WILLIAM OF BASKERVILLE: No, it's not that, Adso. It's because they often contain a wisdom that is different from ours and ideas that could encourage us to doubt the infallability of the word of God... And doubt, Adso, is the enemy of faith.

Il riso libera il villano dalla paura del diavolo, perché nella festa degli stolti anche il diavolo appare povero e stolto, dunque controllabile. Ma questo libro potrebbe insegnare che liberarsi della paura del diavolo è sapienza.

It is necessary to create constraints, in order to invent freely.

A szabadság tehát szenvedély, a szabadság akarása viszont cselekvés, és ez a különbség közöttem és a kÅ' között. Én akarhatok.

Yet I cannot speak of them, because the very concept that universal laws and an established order exist would imply that God is their prisoner, whereas God is something absolutely free, so that if He wanted, with a single act of His will He could make the world different.

Pero entonces, si el ser es tan frágil e insustancial como para sostenerse únicamente por la ilusión de quienes buscan su secreto, , entonces, como decía Amparo en la tenda, después de su derrota, entonces realmente no hay redención, somos todos esclavos, y lo único que merecemos es un amo...

El libro tendrá que dar la idea de otro periódico, mostrar cómo yo durante todo un año me he empleado a fondo para realizar un modelo de periodismo independiente de toda presión, dejando entender que la aventura acabó mal porque no se podía alumbrar una voz libre.

Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai.

And I wondered if these people too, who seemed able to move as they wished about the yard, were in truth constrained to behave as they did and were only pretending to be free, as we ourselves had done when we came in procession through the town.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.