Quotes About Freedom

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

From the very beginning, existentialism defined itself as a philosophy of ambiguity.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.