This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
Without freedom there can be no morality.
Persuasion that property and freedom are inseparably connected, and that economic leveling is not economic progress. Separate property from private possession, and liberty is erased.
Freedom | Liberty | Persuasion | Progress | Property |
We should never forget that everything Hitler did in German was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”
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José Martí, fully José Julián Martí Pérez
The dagger plunged in the name of Freedom is plunged into the breast of Freedom.
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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that his nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Birth | Earth | Freedom | God | Government | People | Government |
Iris Murdoch, aka Dame Jean Iris Murdoch
Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
Freedom | Knowing | Understanding |
Acceptance of death is acceptance of freedom – freedom to live each day with clarity and courage… If we know we are going to die, all danger disappears. There is less fear about what can go wrong, because the worst that can possibly go wrong – our own death – is completely assured. All there is left to do is live, and live well.
Acceptance | Courage | Danger | Day | Death | Fear | Freedom | Wrong | Danger |
We consider progress as legitimate only when it reinforces, rather than undermines, freedom and democracy.
Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome.
Simply to be a human being is to be a futurist of sorts. For human freedom is largely a matter of imaging alternative futures and then choosing among them.
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Richard Niebuhr, fully Helmut Richard Niebuhr
The Protestantism which stems from Luther has continued to concentrate its energies upon maintaining the freedom of the Word and has been inclined to yield to political and economic forces in what seem to be purely temporal matters.
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To regain the freedom of our Will, we must become consciously aware of what we have been subconsciously choosing. Then we can choose anew.
Prince Metternich, fully Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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