Quotes tagged with 'freedom'

When I was younger, not fitting in felt like a flaw. Now it feels like freedom.
—John Mark Green freedom life

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.
—Hans F. Hansen freedom

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.
—Aldous Huxley freedom

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
—Thomas Jefferson freedom government

While we shall negotiate feely, we shall not negotiate freedom.
—John F. Kennedy freedom government

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
—Martin Luther King freedom government

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
—Martin Luther King freedom

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.
—Martin Luther King freedom

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised ‘for the good of its victims’ may be the most oppressive.
—C. S. Lewis freedom government

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
—C. S. Lewis freedom life

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
—C. S. Lewis freedom life

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
—Rosa Luxemburg freedom government

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.
—Charles Mackay freedom

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
—Nelson Mandela freedom philosophy

When people become educated, you can't control them, you can't frighten them. People who are educated know their own power and don't surrender it to others.
—Jordan Maxwell freedom government

I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty.
—H. L. Mencken freedom

No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.
—Maya Mendoza freedom life

Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
—Friedrich Nietzsche freedom

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
—Anaïs Nin freedom life

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
—George Orwell freedom government liberty