Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Quotes to Explore
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
Gary Johnson -
We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
Forest Whitaker -
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells -
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth -
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
Natasha Lyonne -
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
Dan Rosensweig
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
Nancy Pearcey -
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke -
When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
Wendell Willkie -
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Ian Mckellen -
Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
Zhang Zhidong -
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
Taya Kyle -
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Ralph Abernathy -
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
Wanda Sykes -
When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
Nazanin Boniadi
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The legacy of the Freddie Gray unrest? I think that remains to be determined.
Larry Hogan -
This death’s livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
T. E. Lawrence -
I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.
Kay Bailey Hutchison -
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky