Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: humor freedom reason Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: wisdom freedom happiness ego seriousness fulfillment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: freedom style failure grace triumph defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky More about this quote Tags: freedom torment subservience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: freedom responsibility liberty dread Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way. —Viktor Frankl More about this quote Tags: power freedom choice attitude control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: freedom liberty business banks banking armies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be free is to have achieved your life. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Tags: life freedom achievement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. —Charles Austin Beard More about this quote Tags: history freedom perspective independence tyranny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What you get free costs too much. —Jean Anouilh More about this quote Tags: freedom money cost Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice. —Noam Chomsky More about this quote Tags: hope freedom change improvement guarantee Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. —Margaret Mitchell More about this quote Tags: freedom reputation weight burden Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. —William Hazlitt More about this quote Tags: love others power freedom self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. —Peter Ustinov More about this quote Tags: freedom choice USA conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his "worldly" interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests. . . . So the power structures apparently have no other choice than to sink deeper into this vicious maelstrom, and contemporary people apparently have no other choice than to wait around until the final inhibition drops away. But who should begin? Who should break this vicious circle? Responsibility cannot be preached but only borne, and the only possible place to begin is with oneself. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: justice truth power freedom peace words democracy change responsibility talk values Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email