Quotes About Freedom

Every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

You can only find out what you are from what you are not which is everything and nothing. Your home is everywhere and nowhere. Your true identity is no identity. You aren't an owner but a messenger of the infinity, The no-thing is open to everything, timeless and Free.

Which way should you run to escape this world?

Pongo las manos sobre mi corazón y siento que late desesperado. -¿Qué quieres tú? Y me contesta: -Romper tu pecho, echar alas, agujerear las paredes, atravesar las casas, volar, loco, a través de la ciudad, encontrarle, ahuecar su pecho y juntarme al suyo.

Qué mundos tengo dentro del alma que ha tiempo vengo pidiendo medios para volar?

La vi escrita al tramonto, indescifrable. Un pentagrama sobre el campo alzado: y era un millar de pájaros, cubriendo de negras notas los tirantes hilos. Se agrupaban en llaves y en acordes en el papiro rosa de la tarde; (y a un golpe de batuta abandonaban la partitura locos de alegría.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Ich werde es hoffentlich stets ablehnen, Menschen überzeugen zu wollen. Man kann nur versuchen, ihnen die Möglichkeiten zu zeigen, aus denen sie wählen können. Schon das ist anmaßend genug, denn wer kennt die Möglichkeiten, die der andere hat? Der andere ist nicht nur der Mitmensch, sondern auch der ganz andere, den man niemals erkennen kann. Außer. man liebte ihn.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

No one should let himself fall slave to his own opinion.

What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

Les grands artistes n'ont pas de patrie. Great artists have no country.

Great artists have no country.

Sirkte yaralanan bo?alar, s?rtlar?nda matadorun k?l?c?yla, bir kö?ede yatmaya gitmek ve sükûn içinde ölmekte serbesttirler. ?urada veya burada, söyleyin bana, ne yapmaya gideyim. Bana temiz bir sema, a?açlar ve evler, konu?an, içen, ?ark? söyleyen adamlar, rakseden kad?nlar ve doludizgin ko?an atlar göstereceksiniz. Bütün bunlar hayat de?ildir, hayat?n gürültüsüdür.

un homme de vingt ans peut avoir plus vécu qu'une femme de trente. La liberté dont les hommes jouissent les mène bien plus vite au fond de toutes choses ; ils courent sans entraves vers tout ce qui les attire ; ils essayent de tout. Dès qu'ils espèrent, ils se mettent en marche, ils vont, ils s'empressent. Arrivés au but, ils se retournent ; l'espérance est restée en route, et le bonheur a manqué de parole. »

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us." Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

Folks in Washington have it all figured out - they are going to make your choices and run your life.

In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.

We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.