The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“Just as medieval culture did not manage to square chivalry with Christianity, so the modern world fails to square liberty with equality.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
“To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom,… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I'm the enemy because I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings.” — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
We have a system which, though far from perfect, is strong with idealism. It gives elbow room for men of all races… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I am interested in making sure that the people of Cyprus will be able to live in a reunited Cyprus, where they… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I loved the bike because it gave me some measure of independence that I did not have. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
“Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.” — Aaron Lauritsen Copy Share Image
Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of… — Richard von Weizsaecker Copy Share Image
“Determined independence of spirit walks at freedom in a tyrant's Bastille, and defies a despot's hosts; but a mind enslaved by sin… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. — Lillian Hellman 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
“Sometimes when you hold on too loosely, it's as if you aren't holding on at all.” — Layla M. Wier Copy Share Image
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting… — Arno Gruen Copy Share Image
“Dr. Barbara Reinhold, author of Free to Succeed: Designing Your Life in the New Free Agent Economy,” — Margaret Lobenstine Copy Share Image
“If freedom, democracy, and the rights of man are to be preserved through the ages, free men and women must accept the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of… — Jessi Kirby Copy Share Image
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
