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
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
“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
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
Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand… — Adam Hamilton 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
India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule… — Manmohan Singh 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
Everyone has right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid the taxes. Human freedom… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone… — Immanuel Kant 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
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
“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
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“When is a market free?" With regard to the first corollary identified above, freedom in Augustine's view is not simply the absence… — William T. Cavanaugh 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
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human… — Amity Shlaes 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 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
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
“whoever intentionally robs himself of self-consciousness, reason, and will, extinguishes the light which God has given to man, annihilates his human freedom… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination… — Herbert Hoover 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
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial… — David Graeber 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
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
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
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
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image