Quotes About Liberty

Libertatea, combinat? cu nelini?tea constant? - ca o perdea care nu se trage de tot — poate s? duc? numai la crearea de psihopa?i sexuali.

The right to liberty was crucial: it is difficult to find a single reference to imprisonment in the whole of rabbinic literature, because only God can curtail the freedom of a human being. Spreading scandal about somebody was tantamount to denying the existence of God.104 Jews were not to think of God as a Big Brother, watching their every move from above; instead they were to cultivate a sense of God within each human being so that our dealings with others became sacred encounters.

What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?

Para cultivarse espiritualmente con mayor libertad, un pueblo necesita estar exento de la esclavitud de sus propias necesidades corporales, no ser ya siervo del cuerpo.

When the ancient world was in its last throes, the ancient religions were overcome by Christianity. When Christian ideas succumbed in the 18th century to rationalist ideas, feudal society fought its death battle with the then revolutionary bourgeoisie. The ideas of religious liberty and freedom of conscience merely gave expression to the sway of free competition within the domain of knowledge.

Le royaume de la liberté commence seulement là où l'on cesse de travailler par nécessité.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.