Quotes About Liberty

Ahora lo sé: soy sola. Yo y mi liberad que no sé usar. La gran responsabilidad de la soledad. Quien no está perdido no conoce la libertad y no la ama. En cuanto a mí, asumo mi soledad. Que a veces se extasía como ante los fuegos artificiales. Soy sola y tengo que vivir una cierta gloria íntima que en la soledad pueda convertirse en dolor. Y el dolor, en silencio.

Pero existirá la libertad sin el permiso previo de la locura

Este libro requirió una libertad tan grande que tuve miedo de darla. Está por encima de mí. Intenté escribirlo humildemente. Yo soy más fuerte que yo. C. L.

Si fuese protegida por Ulises todavía más de lo que era, ambicionaría pronto lo máximo: ser protegida hasta el punto de no temer ser libre: pues de sus huidas de libertad tendría siempre de donde volver.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open.

When power is up for grabs," Pitt said, "the first casualty is often liberty.

history is the story of liberty becoming conscious of itself.

If you don't like a book, you can close it. But you have no right to say I can't open it.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

There are some principles that cannot be compromised. Either we shall have a society based upon ordered liberty and the initiative of the individual, or we shall have a planned society that means dictation no matter what you call it or who does it. There is no half-way ground. They cannot be mixed.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. The

Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to starve, it spelled toil, insecurity, and fear for the vast majority of the population. If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this kind of freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization.

Non è l'ambito delle scelte aperte all'individuo il fattore decisivo nel determinate il grado della libertà umana, ma che cosa può essere scelto e che cosa è scelto dall'individuo.

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death.

CAMILLE DESMOULINS: For the establishment of liberty and the safety of the nation, one day of anarchy will do more than ten years of National Assemblies.