Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

Rosa Luxemburg

"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it"

Prince Charles, Royalty

Prince Charles

"I think that people should be able to express themselves in whatever way they want"

Kesha, Musician

Kesha

"The king must die so that the country can live"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

Maximilien Robespierre

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"Give me liberty, or give me death!"

Patrick Henry, Politician

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always"

Guy Debord, Writer

"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society"

Angela Davis, Activist

"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican"

Calvin Klein, Designer

Calvin Klein

"Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?"

Joseph Howe, Politician

"An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters"

Henry Clay, Statesman

Henry Clay

"Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them"

Georges Bataille, Writer

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates"

Pervez Musharraf, Statesman

"A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten"

Kemal Ataturk, Soldier

Kemal Ataturk

"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one"

Pervez Musharraf, Statesman

"We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior"

Jerry Springer, Celebrity

"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch"

Corazon Aquino, President

Corazon Aquino

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground"

Jello Biafra, Musician

Jello Biafra

"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people"

James Bovard, Author

"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile"

Madeleine Albright, Statesman

"Posterity: You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it"

John Quincy Adams, President

John Quincy Adams

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion"

William Godwin, Writer

"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"I do think that our freedoms are at risk"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

Clarence Thomas

"The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die"

Eldridge Cleaver, Activist

Eldridge Cleaver

"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

"After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority"

James Reston, Journalist

"To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete"

Vaclav Havel, Leader

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