Born Quote by James A. Baldwin

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

— George Orwell

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

— Rudy Giuliani

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting…

— Iris Murdoch

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.

— Alastair Farrugia

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the…

— Jonathan D. Morris

The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect…

— African Spir

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and…

— Thomas Mann

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

— Norman O. Brown

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group…

— Coretta Scott King

Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom…

— Rosa Luxemburg

How can we speak of Democracy or Freedom when from the very beginning of life we mould the child to undergo tyranny, to obey…

— Maria Montessori

True freedom is not advanced in the permissive society, which confuses freedom with license to do anything whatever and which in the name of…

— Pope John Paul II