Top 1200 Academic Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

If you're going to equalize the academic playing field, you've got to get the kids in early childhood programs.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

The Marxist combination of materialism and determinism is fatally anti-humanistic. It denies a consciousness, a mind, that is independent of material conditions and class relations. It denies a will and volition that are capable of shaping the course of history. It denies an individuality that is not reducible to class. It denies both the idea and the reality of freedom, a freedom that is something more than the "bourgeois" freedom to buy and sell. It denies a morality that transcends class interests. And it denies the spirituality of man.

The price of freedom is to allow freedom. Very few people are willing to pay the price.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

I think people are surprised when I string two sentences together. But I had a fiercely academic upbringing.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

Freedom to love and freedom to choose who you love are one's basic rights and we shouldn't be scared to exercise them.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom - let's keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

Let us not rush into a vast expansion of government power in a misguided attempt to protect freedom. In doing so, we will inevitably erode the very freedom we seek to protect.

What on earth have a man's name, degree, academic position, and of all things, opinions, to do with whether a thing is true?

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.

I wasn't a very academic kid, and music was the way for all that feeling and angst and sex and love and anger to be channelled.

Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.

The importance of our being free to do a particular thing has nothing to do with the question of whether we or the majority are ever likely to make use of that particular possibility. To grant no more freedom than all can exercise would be to misconceive its function completely. The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

We can't bypass our heritage. We can't bypass the knowledge of who we are. You don't take a DNA test to see if you believe in freedom. Freedom is taught, and teaching the Constitution - I won't go on too much.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Every medium has its own kind of freedom. I don't want to just cross from one to the next. I want to enjoy the freedom each one has. Sometimes, you can do something for TV that you can't do in the cinema.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

There's a certain kind of existential freedom that comes to people who realize that all the things that they hold onto and that they think define them, once they're gone, there's this new freedom to determine the way you're going to live your life.

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.

There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by academic achievement.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.