Quotes About Freedom

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

The wonderful thing about being isolated is that, whatever you do, you're right. And if you're not, then neither are you wrong, because there's no bigmouth around to throw it up to you.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Ovšemže úsudky mohou být v mnoha p?ípadech nesprávné, jak se správn? obáváte. Ale o to práv? nejde, nýbrž o to, aby se dal žák?m svobodný prostor pro to vyjád?it své vlastní pocity, vlastní úsudky - i když jsou zkreslené.

Besides language and music mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.

55. Nothing in Heaven is enslaved; nothing upon Earth is free.

Becoming our own person, breaking free from our "ought selves"—the identity molded by important people in our lives—is at the heart of the transition process.7 So is ridding ourselves of an unhealthy overidentification with the organizations that employ us, a harder-to-recognize but equally problematic self-definition.

While grateful for it, he was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism, or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.

Since her marriage, she had been left free to pursue her love of literature, inherited

Perhaps this book will help my fellow countrymen remember that it is through the sum of daring individual actions that this nation has risen above all others and that our greatness comes only from the free interplay of singular wills.

The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

No cities can grow in a dictatorship, because everything stays small when it's being watched.

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever since I stopped having to go hungry, I literally eat life itself. And when I eat, I am locked up inside the taste of eating. For sixty years, ever since I came back from the camp, I have been eating against starvation.

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

Se, nesta vida, me quisessem de novo deportar, uma coisa eu saberia: há coisas primeiras que já querem as segundas, mesmo contra o nosso querer. O que é que me compele a manter estas ligações. Porque quero eu, à noite, ter direito à minha miséria. Porque é que não consigo ser livre. Porque obrigo o campo de trabalho a obedecer-me. Saudades de casa. Como se eu precisasse.

En el camino me resultaba sospechoso que arriba, en el cielo, hubiera algo hermoso y en la tierra, abajo, no hubiera ninguna ley que prohibiese mirar a lo alto.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Censorship is serious and drastic business; it should never set merely upon guesswork and more particularly not upon the guesses of men so staunch in morals that they are obviously of distant kin to the rest of humanity.