Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
Top Patriotic Quotes to Inspire Love for Country - page 110
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardner
Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.
Brennan Manning
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.
Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
Jeremy Bentham
The choice people have to make is never between slavery and freedom. We will always have to choose between slavery and the unknown.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
Ai Weiwei
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?
Edith Wharton
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Walter Darby Bannard
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson
Compassion
is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright!
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.
