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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. -- Herbert Spencer
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. -- Betty Ford
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. -- Rollo May
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. -- Andrew Sullivan
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. -- Brent Scowcroft
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom. -- Abraham Lincoln
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. -- Stephen Covey
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. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. -- Robert Dale Owen
Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom. -- Saul Alinsky
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom -- Ai Weiwei
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom. -- Marek Hlasko
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom. -- Niall Ferguson
It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. -- Horace Greeley
Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom. -- Amity Shlaes
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
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. -- Swami Vivekananda
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
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
Every individual should have both the right to join a union and the right to not join a union should they so choose. It's about basic human freedom. -- Michael Baumgartner
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -- Viktor E. Frankl
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
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. -- Wendell Willkie
I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom. -- Whitfield Diffie
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom. -- Adam Hamilton
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
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue -- Immanuel Kant
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
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. -- Charles Horton Cooley
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -- H. L. Mencken
Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able to create and disseminate: what we can share, how we can share it, and with whom we can share it. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. -- Noam Chomsky
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
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. -- Karen DeCrow
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. -- Viktor E. Frankl
O freedom, first delight of human kind! -- John Dryden
Human beings crave freedom at their core. -- John Ensign
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The purpose of computers is human freedom. -- Ted Nelson
Religious freedom is a fundamental human right. -- Pope Francis
Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom. -- Vaclav Klaus
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right. -- Anthony Horowitz
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ? -- Simon Blackburn
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. -- Clarence Darrow
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. -- Viktor E. Frankl
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul. -- George W. Bush
There goes your freedom of choice, there goes the last human voice. -- Tom Petty
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. -- JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. -- Nelson Mandela
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. -- Ronald Reagan
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children. -- Bjorn Ulvaeus
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government. -- Charles A. Murray
The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. -- Eric Hoffer
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. -- Joichi Ito
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right. -- Gisela Kallenbach
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being. -- Bryant McGill
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being. -- Bryant McGill
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. -- Olof Palme
Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us. -- Lech Walesa
Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur. -- Maria Montessori
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights -- Thomas Jefferson
If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing. -- Tony Campolo
Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food. -- John Dos Passos
Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too. -- Salman Rushdie
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. -- Dalai Lama
This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation -- William J. Clinton
Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq. -- Jalal Talabani
To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. -- Barry Goldwater
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. -- Herbert Hoover
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression. -- Taslima Nasrin
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom. -- Dante Alighieri
I really prize my freedom more than work. I prize just being human and doing other things. -- Rose McGowan
For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human. -- Izzeldin Abuelaish
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. -- Liu Xiaobo
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. -- Rollo May
If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view. -- Haile Gerima
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. -- C. V. Wedgwood
... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all. -- Hannah Arendt
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory. -- Nelson Mandela
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Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. -- Aldous Huxley
People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom. -- Eraldo Banovac
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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. -- Emma Thompson
There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. -- Mike Rounds
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. -- Milan Kundera
The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom. -- Chris Matthews
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. -- Camille Paglia
The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens. -- Ai Weiwei
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. -- John Ashcroft
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. -- Michael Anti
But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multi-party democracy. -- Phil Robertson
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
The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human. -- Rollo May
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
I'm for freedom, which I believe is a universal value that every human being is and that is a gift from God. -- Dana Perino
Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. -- Harry S. Truman
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. -- Emma Goldman
There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion. -- Pope John Paul II
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. -- Malcolm X
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
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. -- Kofi Annan
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
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere. -- Lara Logan

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