Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way"

Bob Schaffer, Politician

"The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible"

Ahmed Chalabi, Statesman

"I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that"

Alberto Gonzales, Public Servant

"Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters"

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Soldier

"The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors"

Robert W. Service, Poet

"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free, is something that all of us subscribe to"

Joe Biden, President

"But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had"

Joe Biden, President

"There are only two roads: victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists, which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser"

Buenaventura Durruti, Revolutionary

"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development"

Johann Most, Revolutionary

"I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"But in the first Gulf War the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for"

Kate Adie, Journalist

"The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important"

Bernardo Bertolucci, Director

"Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy"

Carlo Collodi, Writer

"To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen"

Quintus Ennius, Poet

"There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink, and wear"

Thomas Babington, Poet

"Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?"

Adelbert von Chamisso, Poet

"And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"In a free world, there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved"

Eric Hobsbawm, Historian

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