Quotes About Liberty

Vega, death is only fear. Without fear, there is no death. Without death, there are no bars. Without bars, there is only freedom.

Las librerías son el centro de la democracia. Lo primero que los dictadores hacen cuando toman un país es cerrar todas las librerías, porque las librerías están llenas de ideas y diferencias de opinión, todas las cosas que decimos querer en una sociedad libre y abierta, Así que mantengámoslas, apoyémosles, abrasémoslas y amémoslas.

It's the exercise of power, not the exercise of freedom, that requires justification.

Karl Popper once said that attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell. Libertarianism holds out the goal not of a perfect society but of a better and freer one. It

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Someday we may look back on this era as a time when rational compromises might have enhanced both security and liberty, but those compromises were refused because each side was so busy self-righteously being right.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

But property rights are not the rights of property; they are the rights of humans with regard to property. They are a particular kind of human right.

I believe, as many say they believe, that everyone has the right to run his own life—to go to hell in his own fashion.

Una vez, equivocadamente pensamos que nuestra propia cautividad era una libertad. Igual y erróneamente, también consideramos el servir a Cristo como una pérdida. Pero la verdad llegó a resultar exactamente lo contrario de lo que habíamos pensado antes.

There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one tells your precious individual USA selves what they must do. It is this meaning only, this freedom from constraint, and forced duress. But what of the freedom to? Not just free from. Not all compulsion comes from the without…how for the person to freely choose?

People hate people, not freedom.

Pero Fernando Vallejo, con su dominio del idioma, su radicalidad y su constante sentido del humor, es mucho más: es el hombre que rompió el nudo gordiano de un silencio centenario, el hombre que convirtió nuestra más antigua cadena, el lenguaje, en un instrumento de libertad.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, - Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, - A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

our cage We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird, And sing our bondage freely.

Why should their liberty than ours be more?

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men. Polonius

O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confin'd within the weak list of a country's fashion; we are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places stops the mouth of all find-faults.

I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the morality of imprisonment.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

Bloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

They have insisted so much on Equality, that there is no room left for Liberty and little for Fraternity.