Freedom Quote by Philip K. Howard Download Open image ““Mindless rules, not accountable officials, are the enemy of freedom.”” — Philip K. Howard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Responsibility
“Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.” — Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.” — Tenzin Wangyal Copy Share Image
“For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.” — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
“Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!” — Joseph P. Sekula Copy Share Image
“To menace the freedom of thought, religion, and personal safety of other citizens is not long permitted by a nation of free men, for… — Gladys Hasty Carroll Copy Share Image
“Freedom cannot be labeled nor won nor envied. Only when one doesn't realize what freedom is, is one truly free.” — D.J. Niko Copy Share Image
“The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.” — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?” — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share
“Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer… Law cannot save us from ourselves… We have to go out and try… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty,… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“Overthrow the bureaucracy, and return to a system based on human responsibility.” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system of central planning was, because ti can't think. The comedy of law's sterile logic--large POISON signs warning against common sand, spending twenty-two years on pesticide… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share
“In 2010, 70 percent of federal tax revenue was consumed by three entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security)” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute. — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
“We must abandon our belief that human choice denigrates the Rule of Law.” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society where… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their… — Philip K. Howard 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, had no moral ground on which to stand. They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power. But it was a criminal power, to be feared but not respected, and to be… — James Baldwin Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
“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
