[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
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
“Chastity requires “an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
“The Industrial Revolution was the culmination of the rise of Western civilization that began in Greece twenty-seven centuries ago. It was the… — Rodney Stark 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
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Here the mystery of drinking the cup becomes clear. The coming and leaving of friends, the experiences of love and betrayal, of… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The Bible teaches that God is completely in control of what happens in history and yet he exercises that control in such… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“There are no choices without personal freedom…We say that one cannot be human without freedom…Your freedom is the freedom from, no one… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb 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
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
But cutting the working week would free the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend as they see fit. Human… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
“You agree to pay me X dollars for this book, and I agree upon receipt of the X dollars to deliver you… — Anonymous 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 right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring 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
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Every law that curbs my basic human freedom; every lie about the things I care for; every crime committed against me by… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman… — Anonymous 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
The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and… — William Greider 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
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
“The State became the master. The national element moved from the realm of form to the realm of content; it became what… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many… — David F. Ford Copy Share Image
“Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
"Freedom" is probably the word he said more than any other. He used the word freedom constantly. I think for some his… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image