“The morality that goes with this understanding is, above all, the frank recognition of your dependence upon enemies, underlings, out-groups, and, indeed,… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet… — Kim Dotcom Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“When I obtain this or am free of that — then I will be okay.” This is the unconscious mind-set that creates… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Censorship in the schools that denies intellectual freedom to teachers robs the student of that same freedom. And the freedom to learn… — Sterling M. McMurrin Copy Share Image
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition,… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“He had never before realized the blessedness of silence - the freedom to be silent, rather, if one chose. He had never… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who… — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Young Egyptians, gazing through the windows of the Internet, have gained a keener sense than many of their elders of the freedoms… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Merit is no qualification for freedom. [...] Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“In another conversation I said, ‘Tell me the truth. When you were leaving prison after twenty-seven years and walking down that road… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The Statue of Liberty, that frequently malevolent bitch, has an enormous tumor in her gut that has spread to her brain and… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was… — Common Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Being part of the E.U. in Poland means that for the first time in a millennium, nobody disputes Poland's borders, and it… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, Controllers usually see themselves as self-reliant even while they are dependent upon others to maintain their backwards connections and their fragile… — Patricia Evans Copy Share Image
“The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisiac Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream. We stand here… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“God never gives guidance for two steps at a time. I must take one step, and then I get light for the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Believing in and practising the principles of the rule of law is, with our liberty and democracy, among the most powerful weapons… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“There are very few choices in the life of Childfree people that can’t be undone or changed. Take your best shot at… — Jay Zigmont Copy Share Image
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Words of Emancipation didn't arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With 'Mirzya,' we went deep into folk music. The film, unfortunately, did not do well because it was not marketed well. But… — Shankar Mahadevan Copy Share Image
“The Masonic philosophy embodied the political movement under way in America to promote individual liberty and establish a broad-based national identity that… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image