Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else"

Epictetus, Philosopher

Epictetus

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them"

Thomas Paine, Writer

Thomas Paine

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

Søren Kierkegaard

"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home"

Edward R. Murrow, Journalist

Edward R. Murrow

"From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States"

Mel Martinez, Politician

Mel Martinez

"Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was possible"

Mel Martinez, Politician

Mel Martinez

"Independence is happiness"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master"

Sallust, Historian

Sallust

"The seed of revolution is repression"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it"

Germaine Greer, Activist

Germaine Greer

"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"One country, one constitution, one destiny"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

Abbie Hoffman

"I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

Madonna Ciccone

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

Rosa Luxemburg

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence, but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death"

Angela Davis, Activist

"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway digs his own grave"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

Georg Buchner

"To silence criticism is to silence freedom"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free"

Eugene V. Debs, Politician

"Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"I like the noise of democracy"

James Buchanan, President

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence"

Charles A. Beard, Historian

"I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland"

Islom Karimov, Statesman

"A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants' dream of"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Television is democracy at its ugliest"

Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright

Paddy Chayefsky

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

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