Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-12-19 Dec 19, 2024Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinThe first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.~ William JamesThe first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people.~ Charles T. Sprading Dec 18, 2024An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.~ Emile FaguetThe function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.~ Immanuel KantNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.~ Malcolm X Dec 17, 2024To change masters is not to be free.~ Jose Marti y Perez[A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe ShelleyFew men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.~ Sallust Dec 16, 2024Then what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.~ Friedrich NietzscheLiberty is worth whatever the country is worth. It is by liberty that man has a country; it is by liberty he has rights.~ Henry GilesMost of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.~ Henry Grady Weaver Dec 13, 2024Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support.~ Lisa SchiffenThe fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.~ Luc de ClapiersGood men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else.~ Buddha Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print