I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma GandhiStichwörter: freedom expression self-expression personality
Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. . . . Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.
Stichwörter: freedom nationalism democracy america united-states usa dissent government first-amendment thoughts united-states-of-america barnette supreme-court unanimity us
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
[Public Utilities Commission v. Pollak, 343 U.S. 451, 467 (1952) (dissenting)]
Stichwörter: freedom solitude privacy
Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity
Tony SamaraStichwörter: consciousness love freedom spirituality evolution growth meditation healing enlightenment realization foundation advaita satsang
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.
Herbert MarcuseStichwörter: freedom elections government domination radicalism representative-democracy subjugation
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene V. DebsStichwörter: inspirational compassion freedom humanity inequality radicalism kinship subversion
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Albert EinsteinStichwörter: politics freedom history philosophy democracy hope individualism revolution communism socialism
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
Adam SmithStichwörter: politics freedom history philosophy democracy hope individualism revolution communism socialism
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
Vladimir LeninStichwörter: politics freedom history philosophy democracy hope individualism revolution communism socialism
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Leon TrotskyStichwörter: politics freedom history philosophy democracy hope individualism revolution communism socialism
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