One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves.
One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Government is the natural enemy of freedom.
Without freedom, there is no creation.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.
The really important kind of freedom involves being able truly to care about other people.
I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free. "
One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
I actually like a film in a gallery, because you don't have to show up at a certain time to see something, you can just walk in whenever. I like that freedom to be able to see something anytime. I personally don't mind watching something knowing that it's not the beginning and then just letting it run its cycle.