Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Some call it crazy Some say its sick But I think its freedom The pain is fierce but quick Some say that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have ceded the concept of your own rights. You've converted them into something you get as a revocable privilege from the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
“BUT as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I think the country has to find out what it means by freedom. Freedom is a very dangerous thing. Anything else is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character,… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I think of those giants who made the Indian National Congress. Seldom has the world seen a nobler galaxy of women and… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Every morning when you get up look in the mirror and say, “Fuck you, sadness. Eat shit, self-doubt. And suck a bag… — Raptor Jesus Copy Share Image
I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ...… — James Tiptree Jr Copy Share Image
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ...… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practising your religion - which everyone has the… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“Lovers of freedom are, of course, also by and large lovers of tolerance and permissiveness. Being tolerant and permissive, especially toward others,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Freedom is not free, and we all have a lot of work ahead of us. And I perform the ultimate soundtrack to… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“This is our sacred land, Bharat, a land whose glories are sung by the Gods, a land visualized by Mahayogi Aurobindo as… — Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar Copy Share Image
“The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence… — Sarah Price Copy Share Image
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
An O'Toole government will pass a Freedom of Movement Act that will make it a criminal offence to block a railway, airport,… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
It's not mainland China that rubs me up the wrong way, it is the dictatorship that rubs me up the wrong way.… — Jimmy Lai Copy Share Image
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman 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
A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to more time… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
