Human freedom Quotes

“Self awareness gives us ultimate human freedom.”

— Steven Covey

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

— Betty Ford

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

— Simon Blackburn

I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

— Ai Weiwei

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

— Jürgen Moltmann

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

— Lech Walesa

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

— Niall Ferguson

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

— Andrew Sullivan

“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”

— Izzeldin Abuelaish

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

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

— Anonymous

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the…

— Anonymous

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

— Rollo May

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

— Brent Scowcroft

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the…

— Anonymous

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

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

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be…

— Immanuel Kant

The passions of the titanic struggle will finally enter upon the sleep of oblivion, and only its splendid accomplishments for the cause…

— James Longstreet

“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

“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

The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature…

— Matthew Arnold

“The words "God said" appear ten times in the creation account. In this way the creation narrative anticipates the Ten Commandments. This…

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting…

— Manmohan Singh

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

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

Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.…

— Thomas Frank

“Art, literature, and philosophy are attempts to found the world anew on a human freedom: that of the creator; to foster such…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The terms for the medieval debate on predestination were set by Augustine. He had tried throughout his life to reconcile two conflicting…

— John Marenbon

“Since its origins, socialism has meant the liberation of working people from exploitation. As the Marxist theoretician Anton Pannekoek observed, “this goal…

— Noam Chomsky

“Also, the Christian worldview has made foundational contributions to our own culture that may not be readily apparent. The deep background for…

— Timothy Keller

“who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Having placed himself on the level of the world for humans to choose between, God nevertheless stipulates that a choice must be…

— Mark A. Tietjen

“People shouldn’t be forced to categorize themselves as “gay,” “straight,” or “bi.” People are just people. Maybe you’re mostly attracted to men.…

— Aaron Swartz