you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?.
Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 i….
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it..
If we can implant in our people the Christian virtues which we sum up in the word character, and, at the same time, give them a knowledge of the line….
In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them..
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others..
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when it blooms, and ….
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne..
Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior..
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves..
Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion t….
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities..
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone..
We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries..
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death..
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of s….
Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all..
Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty..
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a w….
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom..
I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts..