Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: freedom

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.

The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

America is the only nation in the world based on an idea - freedom and self-government - so if we don't understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Freedom is from within.

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

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

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

I want to have freedom with everything I do.