Freedom Quote by Noam Chomsky

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

— Blaise Pascal

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most…

— Polybius

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

— Wole Soyinka

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

— Edmund Burke

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for,…

— Plutarch

“it’s easier to feel shame if those guilty are centuries dead, especially when such discrediting, by default, confers upon yourself a higher moral standard…

— Terry Goodkind

The trouble with noble descent is sinful pride.

— Rosie P

“...civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Aldous Huxley

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.

— Baron de Montesquieu