Clamour Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clamour Freedom Grants Inspirational Liberty
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. — Jose Marti 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
Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with… — Jacques Attali Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
“You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image