Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

Archibald MacLeish

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Bodhidharma

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Charles Peguy

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Edmund Burke

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Elbert Hubbard

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Epictetus

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Herbert Spencer

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

Irvine Welsh

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

Natan Sharansky

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Wylie

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Robert Frost

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Vladimir Lenin

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

Wole Soyinka

I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.

bell hooks