#PERSONAL FREEDOM QUOTES FREE#
A free society thrives when neighbors help neighbors, and the strong protect the weak, and public policies promote private compassion. Independence from the state does not mean isolation from each other. And ultimately, freedom lights the path to peace. Freedom unleashes creativity, rewards innovation, and replaces poverty with prosperity. Freedom sustains dissidents bound by chains, believers huddled in underground churches, and voters who risk their lives to cast their ballots. Bush Freedom is a gift from God and the hope of every human heart. Bush We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep it. and a force for peace and prosperity in the world. Bush Freedom is a universal human desire. We know with equal certainty that freedom is not the possession of one nation. Bush Freedom is not the possession of one race. I believe every person has the ability and the right to be free. ~ Mikhail Bakunin Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom, and never even to have a choice in the matter? I, for one, do not believe it. ~ Mikhail Bakunin We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. Beal I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. Joxe Azurmendi, interview in Deia (1 September 2012)ī Once you have caught a glimpse of freedom or experienced a bit of self-determination, you can't go back to old routines that were established under a racist, capitalist regime.The price of freedom is to decide moral and political issues.Aristotle, Quoted in Florilegium by Joannes Stobaeus.Variant: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16.Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.Manal al-Sharif, as quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Freedom for me is to live with dignity, and if my dignity and freedom is controlled by a man, I will never be free.Allen, Freedom in God: A Guide to the Thought of Nicholas Berdyaev (1950) As Berdyaev puts it, we mean by one and the same word "either that initial and irrational liberty which is prior to good and evil and determines their choice, or else that intelligent freedom which is our final liberty in truth and goodness." By the first we mean freedom to direct one's own life, to choose between good and evil as one understands them by the second the freedom which consists in liberation from one's lower nature for the service of what is highest and best. Berdyaev makes an important distinction between two senses of the world freedom, between freedom as a means and freedom as an end.Daniel Akst, The Real ‘80s : If You Think It Was Just a Decade of Greed, You Missed the Revolution, Los Angeles Times, 13th November 1994.Think of gridlock on the freeway: everybody free to drive but nobody able to move.
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