Quotes About Freedom

Order and security became more important than a political freedom and that was synonymous with violence and bloodshed. Hitler saw these problems and spoke directly to people's fears and desires. The German people wanted a strong leader to solve their problems, a leader who could return their national self-respect.

Per tutti i veri nazionalsocialisti non c'è che una meta sola: ciò per cui dobbiamo lottare è la sicurezza della conservazione e dell'aumento della nostra razza e del nostro popolo, del nutrimento dei nostri figli, della purezza del sangue, della libertà ed indipendenza della Patria

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child's mother or some man's wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Freedom. It isn't once, to walk out under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers of light, the fields of dark--freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine remembering. Putting together inch by inch the starry worlds. From all the lost collections.

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

We cut the wires, find ourselves in free-fall, as if our true home were the undimensional solitudes, the rift in the Great Nebula.

we begin to discover the erotic in female terms: as that which is unconfined to any single part of the body or solely to the body itself.

Freedom. It isn't once, to walk out under the Milky Way, feeling the rivers of light, the fields of dark— freedom is daily, prose-bound, routine remembering. Putting together, inch by inch the starry worlds. From all the lost collections.

You were a woman walked on a leash. And they dropped you in the end.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.

I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

I am passionate about human rights.

I'm passionate about travel.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.

I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.