Quotes of: Human-freedom Keyword

Freedom is not the absence of commitment, and to be committed to something or to someone does not mean the loss of freedom. But freedom exists in the realm of the unbound and to be free is to be committed to that which is a part of the unbound realm....

C. JoyBell C.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Benjamin Carson

A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...

The Sickness Unto Death

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and me...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary human duty. For him one is not permitted to “renounce his personality,” and while he states living as a duty, it also c...

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equali...

Alija Izetbegovic

I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of s...

Ban Ki-moon

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Billy Graham

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

James Truslow Adams

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

Kirk Cameron

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Teresa Heinz

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sore...

Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, such as, for example, misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, motion pictures full...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

The Handmaid's Tale

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Oriana Fallaci

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.

Steven Hatfill

In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism." It begins to happen at a practical level when we simultaneously hold that rights which arise...

God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Tim Fargo

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.

Reflections on the Psalms

But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.

Sudenmorsian