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Liberty Quotes by Emma Goldman
- The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"…
- There's never been a good government.
- There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience…
- In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is…
- ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and…
- They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science,…
- The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more…
- Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain, judge, condemn, and…
- The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human…
- No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for…
- Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
- People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
- Patriotism is a menace to liberty.
- Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
- ... woman's narrow and puristattitude toward life makes hera greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overcome the superstitions that…
More Liberty Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton