Freedom Quotes - Page 11

• Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Men, Errors

  Wilhelm Reich (1960). “Selected Writings: An Introduction to Orgonomy”

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, History, Political

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Truth, Novelists

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

  Joshua Nkomo

  Life Lesson, Winning, People

  Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Sarcasm

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Courage, Ends, Wanted

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• Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Liberty, Libertarian, Bites

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Respect, Peace, War

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• Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

  Richard Avedon

  Ideas, Style, Chains

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• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Libertarian Party, Historical, Liberty

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

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• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Order, Office

  "LIFE" Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 6, (p. 48), August 5, 1946.

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• Rules and models destroy genius and art.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Teaching, Intellectual

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Taste'

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Humorous, Patriotic

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your own images offer, the resulting work will be fresh, and authentic. Fall in love with your world.

  Jane Fulton Alt

  Falling In Love, Love You, Voice

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• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you.

  John Lewis

  Country, Religious, Thinking

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Power, Tyrants, Political

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Men, Liberty

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

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• As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

  Alan Watts

  Water, Leaving, Inspire

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

  Jim Rohn

  Order, Giving, Advice

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 17, 2016

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• To freemen, threats are impotent.
  [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Power, Threat, Freeman

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• I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

  Russell Means

  Issues, Important, Today

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• Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Sheep

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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

  Richard Cobden

  Office, Progress, Maintenance

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

  Neil McDonald

  Loss, Government, Safety

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