Abuses Of Freedom Quotes

#1. I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

Franka Potente

#2. Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.

C.H.SPURGEON

#3. Among the things that should make your antennae twitch are technical terms like "capitalized," "deferred," and "restructuring" - and plain-English words signaling that the company has altered its accounting practices, like "began," "change," and

Benjamin Graham

#4. [T]he artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted ...

Thomas Jefferson

#5. If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.

Robert Cailliau

#6. The assumption of 'rights' is the cancer of privilege.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Maurice Maeterlinck

#8. Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance - such abuses of the freedom of speech - a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#9. Isocrates: Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Michael Lewis

#10. That's the fine balance of a fiction writer ... to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Alan Lightman

#11. Promote the voluntary family; voluntarism is the only known cure for abuses of power - in politics, the economy or the family.

Stefan Molyneux

#12. I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism.

Roxane Gay

#13. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.

James A. Michener

#14. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

William Blake

#15. So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Walter Lippmann

#16. There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Rafael Correa

#18. The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#19. Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are.

Kamal Ravikant

#20. Love all, trust all, and do good to all; you will not lose.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Napoleon is great because he rose superior to the Revolution, suppressed its abuses, preserved all that was good in it - equality of citizenship and freedom of speech and of the press - and only for that reason did he obtain power.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. I'm a heel man. There's no doubt about that. I've always done heels for my shows, ever since the first in 2008.

Christian Cota

#23. Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

Benjamin Franklin

#24. I'm not one for a public display of my life.

Raven-Symone