Freedom Quote by Ernest Renan Download Open image “The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.” — Ernest Renan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Human progress Identity Individual Liberty Nature of man Progress
Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity. — Khaled Abou El Fadl Copy Share Image
The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty,… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used… — Altiero Spinelli Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him! — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist,… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater;… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“To have done great things together, to want to do more, such are the essential conditions to form a people. . . . Man… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.” — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
