Quotes of: Political-freedom Keyword

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.

Whittaker Chambers

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

Teresa Heinz

Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an asp...

Witness

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Olof Palme

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Vladimir Lenin

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Mitt Romney

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Emanuel Celler

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Emma Goldman

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Since the Enlightenment, the political order is an order of freedom. The political structures are no longer given, previous to man's freedom, but are rather realities based on freedom, taken on and modified by man. . . . This new definition of politi...

A Theology of Liberation

The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.

Max Stirner

Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.

On Disobedience: Why Freedom Means Saying No to Power

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

Joanna Lumley

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

Julian Lincoln Simon

I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.

Lindsey Haun

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

bell hooks

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

David Novak

I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.

John Hall

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much.

Paul Krugman

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

Dario Fo