Quotes About Basic Freedoms

#1. Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

Judith Martin

#2. For women in this era, it seemed that marriage was the easiest way of acquiring the basic freedoms of adulthood. Things

Aziz Ansari

#3. Yet [Dalai Lama] has said very strongly that basic freedoms of thought and speech have to be respected in Tibet and they're not at the moment. Tolerance doesn't mean accepting what's unfair.

Pico Iyer

#4. I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#5. Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#6. I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#7. Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

Barack Obama

#8. Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

Daisaku Ikeda

#9. As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#10. I apologize if my limbic system has misinterpreted your gesture of emotional support.

Neal Stephenson

#11. Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.

Geoffrey Wood

#12. I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis.

Barack Obama

#13. We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

James Inhofe

#14. Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

Lala Lajpat Rai

#15. There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself.

Roopleen

#16. The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

Terence McKenna

#17. Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell

#18. People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable.

Michel Houellebecq

#19. Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

Oscar Wilde

#20. I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it's summer, so it's suicide, so we're helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.

Richard Siken

#21. Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#22. Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Mitt Romney

#23. Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Clint Eastwood

#24. The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements we have.. all these are part of the way our lives and freedoms are effected.

Amartya Sen

#25. Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life ...

Jimmy Carter

#26. Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Charles Bukowski

#27. Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Owen Feltham

#28. Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society ... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

Stephen Harper

#29. The quest for truth by someone who isn't afraid to pursue it, no matter the cost.

Lara Adrian

#30. Evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

Iris Murdoch