“To leave the household, originally in order to embark upon some adventure and glorious enterprise and later simply to devote one’s life… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to… — Joseph Girzone Copy Share Image
“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain… — Nancy Farmer Copy Share Image
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The U.S. Supreme Court has called free will a “universal and persistent” foundation for our system of law, distinct from “a deterministic… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I was born in a free country, which seeked to encourage freedom and justice for all. I want to be a part… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“[I]f you can be with the pleasant without chasing after it, with the unpleasant without resisting it, and with the neutral without… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“It was a long story and the spirt which moved it was the spirit of man's freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy,… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“A hymn for freedom; without border barriers and barbed wire fences. A hymn for freedom; without astute words. A hymn for freedom;… — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our… — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“If in fact your time to be called before God, you typically won't know it. Sometimes you will, and these are the… — Rusty Bradley Copy Share Image
“The common element in both submission and domination is the symbiotic nature of relatedness. Both persons involved have lost their integrity and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image