This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
Robert G. IngersollTags: liberty morality freedom doctrine rights equal-rights
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader.
PlatoTags: politics liberty freedom history
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
Robert G. IngersollTags: politics liberty freedom religion skepticism
Flat ubi vult
Victor HugoTags: freedom
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.
Frantz FanonTags: freedom africa fanon negritude onwuegbute
Give me liberty or give me death."
[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
Tags: liberty freedom history death revolution american-revolution founding-fathers revolt
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord ByronTags: life reason freedom fools slavery bigotry
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynI felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.
I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die.
Tags: life freedom philosophy self-determination adulthood
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave.
Mark MirabelloTags: freedom slavery anarchism
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