Famous Quotes

"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands."

Friedrich Durrenmatt on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt

• "Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

• "Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."

• "Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them."

• "Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again."

• "News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news."