Quotes About Freedom

Barry Goldwater famously argued that extremism in the defense of liberty was no vice. Our story will show that it is.

The billionaire investor George Soros has coined a term to describe this perspective: "free market fundamentalism." It is the belief not simply that free markets are the best way to run an economic system, but that free markets are the only way that will not ultimately destroy our other freedoms. "The doctrine of laissez-faire capitalism holds that the common good is best served by the uninhibited pursuit of self-interest,"36 Soros wrote.

Russell Seitz and the defenders of tobacco invoked liberty, too. But as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124 Our society has always understood that freedoms

Gördü?üm ve ö?rendi?im her yeni ?ey beni çok mutlu ediyordu. Sanki yepyeni bir dünyaya, bilim dünyas?na, ad?m atm??t?m ve bu dünyay? art?k özgürce ke?fedebilme olana??na sahiptim.

The most precious thing every human being has in this life is the freedom to choose how to live.

So you see, we are not free to choose our fate. There is a yoke to be borne and freedom is only an illusion. I am not free. God has put me here on earth for a reason.

The most terrible thing about terrorism, the thing that people fond of saying "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist" didn't get, was that even siding with the terrorists gave you no immunity. The terrorist never knew his victims, and didn't give a damn. When you sided with them, you were taking sides against yourself.

I don't think you're supposed to speak ill of the dead." "When the dead are spineless bastards who don't take care of their own children, I'll say whatever the fuck I want.

Honesty set you free,

fuck fate. We make our own destinies.

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.

We are waging war as generous enemies, and we wish only to crush the tyrants who enslave you.

At twenty-two many things are allowed which are no longer permitted past thirty

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

The only victory over love is flight.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.