Best Human Freedom Sayings

81 Human Freedom quotes by 67 unique authors

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as… — Charles Horton Cooley
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,… — Stephen Covey
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
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. — Rollo May
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom.… — Mitt Romney
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. — Herbert Spencer
As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy… — Philip Pullman
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge… — Noam Chomsky
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They… — Viktor E. Frankl
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws… — H. L. Mencken
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and… — Philip Pullman
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt,… — Julia Kristeva
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. — Horace Greeley
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
The history of humanity is the history of human freedom...Freedom is not, as Engels thought, "the recognition of necessity." Freedom is the opposite of necessity.… — Vasily Grossman
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as… — Baruch Spinoza
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish… — Rollo May
I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against… — Edward Said
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in… — David Graeber
The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able… — Louise Erdrich
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom,… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. — Amity Shlaes

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