Human Freedom Quotes - Page 4

• Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strong, Educational, Keys

  "Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53".

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• I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Presidential, Tides

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.100, Humanix Books

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• Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ... Most, if not all of you, have very deep ties with the land and with the people of Israel, as I do; for my Christian faith sprang from yours. The Bible stories are woven into my childhood memories as the gallant struggle of modem Jews to be free of persecution is also woven into our souls.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Christian, Spiritual, Memories

  "A Just and Dignified Peace". Lyndon Johnson's Speech on the state of the Middle East, September 10, 1968.

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• Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

  Saul Alinsky

  Enemy, Dogma, Form

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• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

  Terence McKenna

  Faith, Believe, Mean

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• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  Ted Nelson

  Purpose, Computer, Humans

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• Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mom, Attitude, Parent

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• The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

  James Connolly

  Rallying Point, Departure, Republic

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press

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• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lasts

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• Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

  Pope John Paul II

  Profound, Catholic, Vision

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• The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Dignity, Language

  Thomas Stephen Szasz, Karl Kraus (1990). “Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry”, p.44, Syracuse University Press

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• The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

  Betty Ford

  First Lady, Humans

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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

  Lech Walesa

  Fire, Voice, Burning

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• The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

  Thomas Keating

  Acceptance, Giving, Let It Go

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• History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Natural, Realms, Humans

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• This is not a new world - it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements...technological advances...and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like everyone of the super-states that preceded it - it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.

  Rod Serling

  Iron, Enemy, Boots

  "The Twilight Zone: The Obsolete Man". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

  William Pitt

  Exercise, Tyrants, Slavery

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• The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

  George W. Bush

  Dark, People, History

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

  John Dos Passos

  Produce, Marxism, Humans

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• What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream of human freedom and restoring the importance of the common man's liberties can that undermining threat to modern civilization be averted

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, War, Men

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Taken, Judging, Events

  "Iran's president ranges far in interview: talks Israel, slams homosexuality". www.cnn.com. September 25, 2012.

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• It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.

  J. I. Packer

  Lying, Men, Guarantees

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.81, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  Bayard Rustin

  Brother, Men, Goal

  Bayard Rustin (2012). “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters”, p.366, City Lights Publishers

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