Quotes About Freedom

Thomas Jefferson no hizo al Estado responsable de la felicidad de sus ciudadanos. En cambio, solo buscó limitar el poder del Estado. La idea era reservar para los individuos una esfera privada de elección, libre de la supervisión estatal.

It's reasonable to assume, for example, that bulls prefer to spend their days wandering over open prairies in the company of other bulls and cows rather than pulling carts and ploughshares under the yoke of a whip-wielding ape.

Birds fly not because the have a right to fly, but because they have wings.

The average person might well be no happier today than in 1800. Even the freedom we value so highly may be working against us. We can choose our spouses, friends and neighbors, but they can choose to leave us.

In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty first century, censorship works by blocking the flow of information.

Europeans should show tolerance toward the immigrants too, and allow them as much freedom as possible to follow their own traditions, provided these do not harm the freedoms and rights of other people.

Teachers allowed themselves to focus on shoving data while encouraging pupils 'to think for themselves'. Due to their fear of authoritarianism, liberal schools had a particular horror of grand narratives. They assumed that as long as we give students lots of data and a modicum of freedom, the students will create their own picture of the world

There is no authentic self waiting to be liberated from the manipulative shell.

despite the numerous shortcomings of the liberal package, it has a much better record than any of its alternatives

It would be extremely unfortunate if the European experiment in freedom and tolerance unraveled due to an overblown fear of terrorists.

The universe does not give me meaning. I give meaning to the universe. This is my cosmic vocation. I have no fixed destiny or dharma. If I find myself in Simba's or Arjuna's shoes, I can choose to fight for the crown of a kingdom, but I don't have to. I can just as well join a wandering circus, go to Broadway to sing in a musical, or move to Silicon Valley and launch a start-up. I am free to create my own dharma.

A rare wild rhinoceros on the brink of extinction is probably more satisfied than a calf who spends its short life inside a tiny box, fattened to produce juicy steaks.

In the end it was communism that collapsed. The supermarket proved to be far stronger than the gulag.

Incluso Estados Unidos, ultracapitalista, se ha dado cuenta de que la protección de la libertad requiere al menos algunos servicios de bienestar facilitados por el gobierno. Los niños hambrientos no tienen libertades.

Not that everything is possible.

Under liberalism, went a famous quip, everyone is free to starve.

Una característica de los regímenes iliberales es que dificultan más la libertad de expresión incluso fuera de sus fronteras.

?nsan?n hissetme, dü?ünme, arzulama ve icat etme özgürlü?ünü k?s?tlayan her ?ey evrenin anlam?n? k?s?tlar.

El capitalismo no derrotó al comunismo porque fuera más ético, porque las libertades individuales fueran sagradas o porque Dios estuviera enfadado con los paganos comunistas. Por el contrario, el capitalismo ganó la Guerra Fría porque el procesamiento de datos distribuido funciona mejor que el procesamiento de datos centralizado, al menos en períodos de cambios tecnológicos acelerados.

Its principal tenet is that economic growth is the supreme good, or at least a proxy for the supreme good, because justice, freedom and even happiness all depend on economic growth.

Anyone who has read a novel by Charles Dickens knows that the liberal regimes of nineteenth-century Europe gave priority to individual freedom even if it meant throwing insolvent poor families in prison and giving orphans little choice but to join schools for pickpockets. Anyone who has read a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn knows how Communism's egalitarian ideal produced brutal tyrannies that tried to control every aspect of daily life.

A igualdade só pode ser assegurada se forem diminuídas as liberdades daqueles que estão em melhores condições. Garantir que cada indivíduo seja livre para fazer o que desejar inevitavelmente compromete a igualdade.

Esta es la mejor razón para aprender historia: no para predecir el futuro, sino para desprendernos del pasado e imaginar destinos alternativos. Desde luego, esto no supone la libertad total: no podemos evitar estar moldeados por el pasado. Pero algo de libertad es mejor que ninguna.

La maggior parte dei mammiferi escono dal grembo come la terracotta smaltata esce dal forno – ogni tentativo di rimodellarla manderebbe tutto in frantumi. Gli umani escono dal grembo come la pasta di vetro dalla fornace. Possono essere rigirati, stirati e modellati con un sorprendente grado di libertà.