Fausto Cercignani Quotes

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Commitment

• The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Law

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

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Freedom
  • Lost
  • Opinion

• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  

  Randy Travis
  • World
  • Leave
  • Behind

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Soul
  • Freedom
  • Honor

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Conscious
  • Become

• In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Freedom
  • Evil
  • Religious

• If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim - and if they used both halves of their brains - then they'd be libertarians. Instead, they sabotage themselves, and their cause, by constantly generating one spurious reason after another to deprive other people of their freedom.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Freedom

• A lack of moral clarity is also the tragedy that has befallen efforts to advance peace and security in the world. Promoting peace and security is fundamentally connected to promoting freedom and democracy.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Fall
  • Slavery

• To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Freedom

• There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Conscience
  • Alluring

• To win a woman in the first place one must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her. Finally, so she will allow you to leave her, you've got to annoy her.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • She

• And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly
  • Parents

• The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

  

  William H. Seward
  • War
  • Slave
  • Equal

• Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

  

  Fausto Cercignani
  • Freedom
  • Secret
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