Quotes on Freedom

The conservative values of limited government and freedom for all coincide with the movement for full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.

We can have a new vision, one even greater than the system they gave us after World War II. Everyone can pursue happiness and freedom and peace.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Our submission to general principles is necessary because we cannot be guided in our practical action by full knowledge and evaluation of the consequences. So long as men are not omniscient, the only way in which freedom can be given to the individual is by such general rules to delimit the sphere in which the decision is his. There can be no freedom if the government is not limited to particular kinds of action but can use its powers in any ways which serve particular ends.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Become aware, awake. Then you will see that everything comes and goes, all things come and pass. Life is a flux. Your consciousness is the only thing that is immovable, that is eternal. To attain it is freedom. To attain it is the goal of life. If you miss it you have missed your life and you have missed a tremendously great gift, a great opportunity.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them - make them their own.