Quotes About Freedom

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

Scientology is used to increase spiritual freedom, intelligence, ability and to produce immortality.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.

Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.

People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.

You don't have to live with anger, or sadness, or jealousy. You don't have to judge yourself, make yourself guilty, and punish yourself.

To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.

Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.