Philo Quotes

Noble souls, whose brightness the greed of fortune cannot dim, have a kingly something, which urges them to contend on equal footing with persons of the most massive dignity and pits freedom of speech against arrogance.

Philo

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Up
  • Live
  • You

• We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Freedom
  • Slavery
  • Stronger

• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Freedom
  • Gun
  • Empowerment

• The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • World
  • Organization
  • Parent

• History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • History
  • Freedom

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Day

• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • American
  • Freedom
  • System

• If you talk to most businessmen, they'll say that what they do is for the public good, but you know they're just greedy, and consumers are just consuming for the sake of their own greed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Know
  • Greed

• I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Why
  • Freedom

• No actor has complete freedom.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Freedom
  • Actor
  • Complete

• Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Long
  • America

• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Abortion

• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Home
  • Earth

• The one thing you know we won't do is, literally, 'Modern Warfare 2.'

  

  Anthony Russo

• Noble souls, whose brightness the greed of fortune cannot dim, have a kingly something, which urges them to contend on equal footing with persons of the most massive dignity and pits freedom of speech against arrogance.

  

  Philo
  • Freedom
  • Greed