Human Freedom Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

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• Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support the greater it curtails human freedom.

  William O. Douglas

  Support, Inner Strength, Atheism

  "The Bible and the Schools". Book by William O. Douglas, 1966.

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• The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and dignity and will emphasize our commitment "to humanity as a whole." The underlying ethical principle "is the need to respect the dignity and worth of all persons in the world community." Thinkers as diverse as Peter Singer and Hans Küng also emphasize the need for a new global ethic beyond nationalistic, racial, religious, and ethnic chauvinism.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Commitment, Ethical Principles

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• All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Philosophy, Progress, Atheism

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• I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Important

  "Artist Ai Weiwei: China crushes dissenting voices", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Marxists make it an objective to control education, that's how they control minds, countries, populations. We conservatives don't like to control anybody, we're not even activists. We just leave people alone, figure if everybody has the same morality and the same set of values and is focusing on the same basic human things using God-given human freedom, that things are gonna work out fine. That's what America has demonstrated is true, that's being protested this very day. It's not fine; America's unjust, unfair, and all these things. That's the fight we're in the middle of.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Fighting, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Limits, Problem

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• To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

  Barry Goldwater

  Discovery, Mind, Essentials

  "With No Apologies". Book by Barry Goldwater, 1979.

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• Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom.

  Edwin Feulner

  Believe, Essentials, Connections

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Illusion, Found, Phenomenon

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.269, Penguin

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• The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Choices, Degrees, Individual

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.7, Beacon Press

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• I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph.

  Cordell Hull

  America, Triumph, Trials

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• The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature is the study of the operation of non-human forces, of human limitation and passivity. The contemplation of human force and activity tends naturally to heighten our own force and activity; the contemplation of human limits and passivity tends rather to check it. Therefore the men who have had the humanistic training have played, and yet play, so prominent a part in human affairs, in spite of their prodigious ignorance of the universe.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Ignorance, Science

  Matthew Arnold (1868). “Schools and Universities on the Continent”, p.260, Macmillan

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• India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.

  Manmohan Singh

  Lying, Successful, Law

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting all fundamental human freedoms great respect for pluralistic, inclusive value system. I think that's what unites India and the United States. And I do hope that working together, our two countries can write a new chapter in the history of our relationship.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Writing, Destiny

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Progress

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.

  George W. Bush

  Evil, Special, Liberty

  George W. Bush's address to the Nation in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 28, 2005.

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• Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Situation, Humans, Despite

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• [The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Creativity, People, Choices

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• The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.

  William Greider

  Order, Long, Democracy

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• No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Attitude, Lasts, Circumstances

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• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Men

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