Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 1284 Liberty quotesLiberty QuotesLiberty Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. All the characteristics you stress in the Negro people: their beauty, their capacity for joy, their warmth, and their humanity, are well-known characteristics of all oppressed people. They grow out of suffering and they are the proudest possession of all pariahs. Unfortunately, they have never survived the hour of liberation by even five minutes. Hatred and love belong together, and they are both destructive; you can afford them only in private and, as a people, only so long as you are not free.~ Hannah Arendt Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.~ Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.~ Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.~ Aristotle The basis of a democratic state is liberty.~ Aristotle ...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government will provide greater security.~ Larry P. Arnn The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.~ Matthew Arnold To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies and pause to America’s friends.~ John Ashcroft Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.~ Anthony Ashley-Cooper Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.~ Isaac Asimov The use of “religion” as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.~ Margaret Atwood Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.~ Berthold Auerbach It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.~ Sir Francis Bacon Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.~ Sir Francis Bacon The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.~ Michael Badnarik Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.~ James Baldwin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print