Human Freedom Quotes

81 quotes by 67 authors

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. — Viktor E. Frankl
Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of… — James A. Baldwin
The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old… — Suzanne La Follette
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,… — Vaclav Havel
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...… — Frank I. Cobb
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of… — Abraham Lincoln
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. — Andrew Sullivan
The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view… — John Shelby Spong
The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable… — Immanuel Kant
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted… — Andrey Illarionov
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights… — Ronald Reagan
In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order… — Ronald Reagan
We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. — Emma Thompson
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the… — George W. Bush
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
I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the… — Ronald Reagan
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. — Ronald Reagan
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom and they have… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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