... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Believe in all the good things you keep inside There is no freedom in life without freedom of mind.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

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