You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence DarrowTags: inspirational freedom
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
AristotleTags: equality freedom democracy
There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced to a minimum and especially when it is kept negative in character. But just now, the nation as a whole seems to be moving rather swiftly and decisively—as is the world as a whole—in the opposite direction. More and more, we Americans are initiating new forms of positive government action for the common good. Between these two tendencies the struggle becomes every day more open and more intense. And as we wage that conflict it is well to remember that the logic of the Constitution gives no backing to either of the two combatants, as against the other. We are left free, as any self-governing people must leave itself free, to determine by specific decisions what our economy shall be. It would be ludicrous to say that we are committed by the Constitution to the economic cooperations of socialism. But equally ludicrous are those appeals by which, in current debate, we are called upon to defend the practices of capitalism, of "free enterprise," so-called, as essential to the freedom of the American Way of Life. The American Way of Life is free because it is what we Americans freely choose—from time to time—that it shall be.
Alexander MeiklejohnTags: politics freedom america capitalism government socialism
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinTags: freedom security jefferson thomas-jefferson thomas
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.
Naomi KleinTags: freedom peace war america impressions image
A man is as free as he chooses to make himself, never an atom freer.
George MacDonaldTags: freedom
Es dauerte einen Moment, bis er ihr antwortete:
Nein, ich spreche von... von eurer Freiheit, glaube ich. Von dem Glück, das ihr habt, für euch zu leben und auf alles andere zu pfeifen.
Tags: happiness freedom luck freiheit glück
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Freedom
Tags: freedom
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranTags: freedom madness safety madman
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Salman RushdieTags: freedom serenity courage stoicism terrorism civil-society
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