Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every… — Denise Giardina Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
“In a sense, I am a moralist, insofar as I believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human… — Foucault, Michel Copy Share Image
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“I mean, contrary to the contemporary version of it, classical liberalism (which remember was pre-capitalist, and in fact, anti-capitalist) focused on the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image