Quotes with freedom

Quotes 261 till 280 of 520.

  • Karl Marx Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • William Pitt Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
    William Pitt
    British statesman (1759 - 1806)
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Henrik Ibsen Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • John Milton No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Douglas Macarthur No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Assata Shakur Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
    Assata: An Autobiography (2016)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Pearl S. Buck None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bede Griffiths Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Walt Whitman Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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