Top 1200 Democracy Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.

Words Like Freedom There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heartstrings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing. We're fighting for freedom in Iraq. We're going to fight for freedom in America.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.

We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

I think Mrs Thatcher did more damage to democracy, equality, internationalism, civil liberties, freedom in this country than any other Prime Minister this century. When the euphoria surrounding her departure subsides you will find that in a year or two's time there will not be a Tory who admits ever supporting her. People in the street will say, thank God she's gone

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.

Freedom of love is freedom to say yes to many lovers.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice.

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy.

The American Dream is freedom, prosperity, peace-and liberty and justice for all. That's a big dream. It's not always easy to achieve, but that's the ideal. More than any country in history we've made gains toward a democracy that is enviable throughout the world. Dreams require perseverance if they are to be realized, and fortunately we're a hard-working country and people. We are the luckiest people in history, just by the fact that we are Americans.

Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject's sole prerogative.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democracy and it's very important for the health and the life of this democracy that it get better all the time, not get worse.

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.