Human Freedom Quotes

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Change, Power, Freedom

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Life, Love, Faith

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
Herbert Spencer

Freedom, Human, Strongest

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
Charles Horton Cooley

Freedom, Government, Human

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
Rollo May

Freedom, Human, Wish

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
Betty Ford

Women, Freedom, Human

But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
Wendell Willkie

War, Freedom, Crisis

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
Brent Scowcroft

Freedom, Human, Democracy

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand.
Robert Dale Owen

Freedom, Human, Battle

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
Herbert Marcuse

Freedom, Human, Choice

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
Andrew Sullivan

Freedom, Live, Human

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett

Freedom, Human, Found

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