Deny Freedom Quotes

#1. There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.

Isaac Asimov

#2. In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

Gore Vidal

#3. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Abraham Lincoln

#5. There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

Elbert Hubbard

#6. The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists.

Marty Rubin

#7. Dreams deny her the freedom she truly seeks. Darkness consumes. Leg muscles burn. She runs away, even while lost in the paradise of sleep. Gravity is a crushing force bearing down on her chest, shattering wings and refusing her flight. A whisper in her mind. You don't belong here.

Laura Kreitzer

#8. While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

James Monroe

#9. The worst form of snobbery is to deny information; to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable.

Matthew Blakstad

#10. Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Thomas Carlyle

#11. The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

Robert Kennedy

#12. This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

Thomas Merton

#13. Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

James Howe

#14. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana does not give anyone the right to deny services to anyone in this state. It is simply a balancing test used by our federal courts and jurisdictions across the country for more than two decades.

Mike Pence

#15. The society that denies its poverty and injustice has lost a part of its freedom as well. If we deny our dissatisfaction, our anger, our pain, our ambition, we will suffer. If we deny our values, our beliefs, our longings, or our goodness, we will suffer.

Jack Kornfield

#16. The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#17. The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Ayn Rand

#18. Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom. - Malcom X

Maya Angelou

#19. White people's number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don't have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we're ignorant.

Jane Elliott

#20. When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power

Nelson Mandela

#21. Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

Winston S. Churchill

#23. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?

Nancy Pearcey

#24. To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#25. Wrong people are wrong because they use their freedom to deny it to others.

William A. Dembski

#26. To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

James Anthony Froude

#27. No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

John Milton

#28. We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#29. Education for freedom must begin by stating facts and enunciating values, and must go on to develop appropriate techniques for realizing the values and for combating those who, for whatever reason, choose to ignore the facts or deny the values.

Aldous Huxley

#30. To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Richard Perle

#31. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Pat Robertson

#32. The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.

Margaret Atwood

#33. We ought to be free to meet and mingle,
to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principals of human equality.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#34. No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Barack Obama

#35. Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal to liberty.

Harry S. Truman

#36. Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

Coretta Scott King

#37. I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

Rabindranath Tagore

#38. When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#39. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain ... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Kevyn Aucoin

#40. I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan - no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

Kathryn Lasky

#41. Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

Simon Blackburn

#42. to second guess your preferences and tastes based upon how others may interpret them is to unduly deny yourself well-earned freedom.

Joseph R. Lallo