Quotes About Freedom

Logika kebebasan individu--asal tidak merugikan orang lain ini telah menjebak Barat dan masyarakat sekular lainnya untuk menerapkan hukum yang berdasarkan pada 'hak individu', seperti dalam kasus hukum zina. Jika zina dihalalkan oleh masyarakat dan negara, lalu apa logikanya negara mau mengharamkan homoseksual? (Hal.11)

The controversy lay in determining the degree of freedom allowed. In contradistinction to this view, Maimonides held that divine providence was reserved only for certain exceptional individuals.

A pragmatic examination of the way of life that results from obedience to the Torah shows that in the long run, besides offering considerable freedom in almost every area of endeavor, such obedience lends to every act the quality of ritual and makes it seem a direct link between man and his Maker.

A hungry man is not a free man.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

When an American says that he loves his country, he ... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

After fifteen years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical will power, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.

don't let what other people think, stop you from doing the things you love

Wenn Menschenherzen brechen und Menschenseelen verzweifeln, dann blicken aus dem Dämmerlicht der Vergangenheit die großen Überwinder von Not und Sorge, von Schmach und Elend, von geistiger Unfreiheit und körperlichem Zwange auf sie hernieder und reichen den verzagenden Sterblichen ihre ewigen Hände! Wehe dem Volke, das sich schämt, sie zu erfassen!

Sehr intelligente Menschen sollten sich eine primitive und dumme Frau nehmen. In meiner freien Zeit will ich meine Ruhe haben.

T]he efficiency of the individual is increased more by a far-reaching granting of freedom than by compulsion from above, and it must further prevent the process of natural selection, which is to promote the most efficient, the most able, and the most industrious, from being cut short.

A nation without honor will sooner or later lose its freedom and independence. This is in accordance with the ruling of higher justice, for a generation of rabble is not entitled to freedom.

El objetivo por el cual tenemos que luchar es el de asegurar la existencia y el incremento de nuestra raza y de nuestro pueblo; el sustento de sus hijos y la conservación de la pureza de su sangre; la libertad y la independencia de la patria, para que nuestro pueblo pueda llegar a cumplir la misión que el Supremo Creador le tiene reservada.

Esasen devletin otoritesi bir gaye olamaz. Çünkü devlet otoritesi bir gaye kabul edilirse, istibdad? kutsal saymak gerekir.

Con orgogliosa meraviglia commisuravo lo sviluppo del Reich al marciume dello Stato: mi indignava che in uno Stato il più idiota dei cittadini ha il diritto alla parola