The eighteenth century called upon man to free himself of all the historical bonds in the state and in religion, in morals and in economics.
George Simmel | State, Religion, Freedom
Objectivity may also be defined as freedom: the objective individual is bound by no commitments which could prejudice his perception, understanding, and evaluation of the given. The freedom, however, which allows the stranger to experience and treat even his close relationships as though from a bird’s-eye view, contains many dangerous possibilities.
George Simmel | Objectivity, Freedom
Let each live by his own convictions and worship his own God.
Mikhail Gorbachev | Freedom
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X – Freedom, Power
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Malcolm X – Peace, Freedom
If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X – Freedom
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
Malcolm X – Freedom, Equality
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
Malcolm X – Religion, Freedom
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Reason, Freedom
Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Seneca – Freedom
Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.
Nelson Mandela – Freedom
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
Freedom – Edmund Burke
Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.
Jimmy Carter – Fate of freedom
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter – enhance freedom
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
