Top 1200 Security And Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

Whether it appears so or not, you have total freedom right now. What would happen if you fully exercised that freedom this very minute?

To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.

My service solidified my respect for our freedom, and the struggle to preserve it. I know the cost of obtaining freedom, keeping it and the value of it.

My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.

Security, we have a jumper! Security?

The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the State. It is by this means that it maintains liberty of expression, security of person and property, genuine freedom of contract, the rights of public meeting and association, and finally its own power to carry out common objects undefeated by the recalcitrance of individual members.

The most significant dimension of freedom is the freedom from one's own ego - in other words, from the feeling that I am the center of everything

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.

Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.

I am confident that if we stand for the hope and freedom of others we will make our own freedom more secure.

Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives.

Freedom of belief is pernicious, it is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.

As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Freedom to me can be so many things; freedom to be myself, to express myself and do the things I want to do, freedom to go in any direction I want to go in order to accomplish my goals.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Freedom is... freedom can actually be boring, you've got to realize that.

It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations.

We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security, and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way: by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.