Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [461-480] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The most efficacious method of dealing with deviancy is to ignore, to the furthest point of our tolerance, those items which we find offensive.~ Ilbert Geis Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.~ Jean Genet O freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!~ Daniel George Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.~ David Lloyd George Freedom is an intellectual achievement which requires disavowal of collectivism and embrace of individualism.~ Onkar Ghate In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.~ Edward Gibbon Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.~ Edward Gibbon You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?~ Khalil Gibran Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Bred in the lap of Republican Freedom.~ William Godwin Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.~ Hermann Goering Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live. [Ger., Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein.]~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The moment men obtain perfect freedom, that moment they erect a stage for the manifestation of their faults. The strong characters begin to go wrong by excess of energy; the weak by remissness of action.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals.~ Emma Goldman A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.~ Barry Goldwater Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny.~ Barry Goldwater Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print