Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Liberty only survives when it is defended.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
