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The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Courts should always do the right thing. But if winning were as simple as making a good argument and filing a good… — Evan Wolfson Copy Share Image
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
“When we can stand in the solitary presence of something magnificent, the obligation of sharing the experience evaporates, and we are free… — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must… — Daniel H. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I did not like formal meetings, because they took away my freedom. I just liked to spend time with my friends, where… — Bidzina Ivanishvili Copy Share Image
“On the day when you again allow abominable men to confiscate your freedom, your money, your lives, your private property, your manhood… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“From my childhood days I have understood that we believe absolutely that the Constitution of our country was an inspired instrument, and… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
“Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.” — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“I kept walking. Have you ever done that? Just walk. Just walk and have no idea where you're going? It wasn't a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
“Inauspicious intents (ashubh bhaav) binds demerit karma (paap), auspicious intents (shubh bhaav) binds merit karma (punya) and pure intents (shuddh bhaav) results… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Or as George Orwell has it, in his proposed 1945 preface to Animal Farm, entitled ‘Freedom of the Press’: ‘If liberty means… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“This is it. This is my fucking out. I choose freedom. Freedom from my demons. Freedom from his touch. Freedom from the… — Dawn Robertson Copy Share Image
I actually like a film in a gallery, because you don't have to show up at a certain time to see something,… — Moyra Davey Copy Share Image
Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a… — James Victore Copy Share Image
My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of… — Robert Jackson Copy Share Image
“ Want and need were words that got eaten smaller and smaller: Freedom, autonomy, a perennial bank balance, a stainless-steel condo in… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Firstly, I think the values that underpin all liberals, frankly - classical liberals, all liberals - of respect for the individual and… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
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