Default Quote by Desmond Tutu Download Open image “Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.” — Desmond Tutu ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Default Freedom Freedom and liberty Good people Liberty Loses People Vigilant
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long. — Ron Paul Copy Share
Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly. — John Major Copy Share Image
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers.… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
Each of us is precious to God because each of us has their name written on the palms of God's hands. And God says… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Too many people think that reconciliation means you soft-pedal differences. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share
“child of God, known by name and whose very hairs are numbered. Praise and adore God and thank him for ever and ever. Amen.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable. — Ken Leung Copy Share Image
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image