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
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“What I am really writing about, what I have always written about, is the idea of human freedom, human community, the real… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Anxiety,” Kierkegaard said, “is the dizziness of freedom.” This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring,… — Anonymous 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
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're working hand and hand with our allies and partners to strengthen a rules-based international order that advances a cause of human… — Lloyd Austin Copy Share Image
No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts, feelings, desires and actions are being robotized; 'life' is coming to mean feeding apparatuses and being fed by them. In… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
“The biblical writers do not finally and fully resolve the tension between divine sovereignty and human freedom. They affirm the authenticity of… — Thomas R. Schreiner Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Commitment is the ultimate assertion of human freedom. It releases all the energy you possess and enables you to take quantum leaps… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The degree of unity aspired to in the total society is incompatible with human freedom and the right to disagree. Politics should… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom,… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Given his emphasis on human freedom it is no wonder why some champion Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism, a philosophy that… — Mark A. Tietjen Copy Share Image
“The goodness of things in the cosmos is not rooted most basically in human freedom or intelligence, and thus in human spirit,… — David L. Schindler Copy Share Image
“Just as the dignity of man is based on his freedom--to the extent that he may even say no to God--likewise, the… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image