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
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 creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God… — Nikolai Berdyaev 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
“-This plea contradicts itself; for to assert that because of man's freedom he can go on for ever choosing evil, is, in… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
“Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A predominantly voluntary exchange economy, on the other hand, has within it the potential to promote both prosperity and human freedom. It… — Milton Freidman Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring 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
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Religions, creeds, drama, poetry, games, folklore, folk tales, mythology, moral and aesthetic codes' elements of the political and juridical life affirming a… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow 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
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. — Betty Ford 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
“The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for personal repentance but only public… — Fulton J. Sheen 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
“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are… — Edward W. Said 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
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom. — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information… — Rebecca MacKinnon 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