On Liberty Quotes

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

My biggest fear is that the enlightened Arab thinkers are gong to leave the Arab world in search of fresh air: somewhere far away from the sword of the religious authorities.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Empathy is the sunlight to the vampire of culture.

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas, " where Christ will be taken out of its context.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

I am in a cage. I desire to be set free.

Self-condemnation means speaking against one's own success. If can't stop confirming your incompetencies for what you are competent for, you are unlikely do pursue your true purpose.

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

Jesus Christ has set me free from the chains of sin.

Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation.

No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

Proving one’s innocence is as improbable as going to Pluto fora honeymoon. It could take away everything you had in life, dearones, dreams, hopes and, most importantly, the right to have yourfreedom.

As long as you feed your light and allow it to breathe, if you do not cover it, it will continue to flicker and dance, mesmerizing, warming, soothing, healing...bringing light to others.

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.

With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

There are two principles between which there can be no compromise—liberty and coercion.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Modern civilisation has based its specific foundation on the principle of liberty which states that man is not a mere instrument to be used by others but rather a main autonomous living being.

Thinking, it seems, is a difficult undertaking RjS

Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.

With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

There's something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Right isn't always legal.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.