Freedom and Servitude

"He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave."

William Drummond

Freedom and Servitude

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."

John Brunner

Freedom and Servitude

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice."

Lin Yutang

Freedom and Servitude

Justice

Peace and War

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven."

Desmond Tutu

Freedom and Servitude

God and Religion

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom."

André Malraux

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

William Pitt the Younger

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."

Edmund Burke

Freedom and Servitude

Justice

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave."

Cyril Connolly

Dreams and Desires

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Freedom and power bring responsibility."

Jawaharlal Nehru "A Tryst With Destiny"

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Thomas Jefferson

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"We prefer being free men than imprisoned heros."

Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no such thing as a little freedom - either you are all free or you are not free."

Walter Cronkite

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."

Helen Hayes "On Reflection"

Freedom and Servitude

Success and Fame

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."

Edward Gibbon "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army."

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Education

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 1.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A husband is a man who lost his liberty in pursuit of happiness."

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Freedom and Servitude

Happiness

Marriage

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people."

Charlie Chaplin "The Great Dictator"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."

Rabindranath Tagore

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "The Brothers Karamazov"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Martin Luther King "Why We Can't Wait"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles "Fragments"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave."

George Bernard Shaw "Misalliance"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

Friedrich Engels

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X "Malcolm X Speaks"

Freedom and Servitude

Peace and War

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Saul Alinsky

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. "

Henry David Thoreau "Slavery in Massachusetts"

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I am a free citizen."

George Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Where liberty dwells there is my country."

Latin Proverbs

Freedom and Servitude

Patriotism

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."

George Bernard Shaw "John Bull's Other Island"

Freedom and Servitude

History and Nations

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."

Karel Čapek

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do."

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

History and Nations

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers' wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death."

John Donne "Eighty Sermons"

Freedom and Servitude

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like."

Jules Mazarin

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

Hannah Arendt

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains."

Thomas Henry Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."

David Herbert Lawrence "The Plumed Serpent"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-these are the pillars of society."

Henrik Ibsen "Pillars of Society"

Freedom and Servitude

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A forest bird never wants a cage."

Henrik Ibsen "The Master Builder"

Freedom and Servitude

Nature and Animals

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

George Orwell "The Road to Wigan Pier"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 8.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

John Adams "The Adams Family Correspondence"

Freedom and Servitude

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

James Graham Ballard

Freedom and Servitude

Normality and Madness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes."

Victor Frankl

Freedom and Servitude

Human

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Mahatma Gandhi

Defeates and Mistakes

Freedom and Servitude

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion."

Scottish Proverbs

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Patriotism

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)