Freedom
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing... not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
When government — in pursuit of good intentions — tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
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