Quotes tagged with 'freedom'

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
—George Orwell freedom government

My country is wherever liberty lives.
—Thomas Paine freedom government

We don't have freedom of speech so we can talk about the weather. We have freedom of speech so we can say very controversial things.
—Ron Paul freedom government

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
—Ezra Pound freedom

If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience or social acceptability, they are not your principles. They are your costume.
—Nitya Prakash freedom

The truth is not for all men, only for those who seek it.
—Ayn Rand freedom life

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
—Jules Renard freedom

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear–mongering to dupe average people into accepting–or even demanding–their own enslavement.
—Larken Rose freedom government

My freedom comes from me, not you. Or else it's not freedom at all, it's permission.
—Art S. freedom

I think the greatest freedom that I've gained is the fact that I no longer have to worry about happens tomorrow, because I'm happy with what I've done today.
—Edward Snowden freedom life

A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.
—Edward Snowden freedom government life

Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them
—Edward Snowden freedom government

People don't realize how hard it is to speak the truth to a world full of people that don't realize they're living a lie.
—Edward Snowden freedom

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different that saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
—Edward Snowden freedom government

Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired
virtues under its new name Social Justice.
—Thomas Sowell freedom government life

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
—Thomas Sowell freedom government

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truth.
—Wole Soyinka freedom government

When evil flourishes, the prudent man will hide himself.
—L. E. Thissell freedom

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
—Henry David Thoreau freedom sailing

Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish that they are after.
—Henry David Thoreau freedom philosophy