Quote
“I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
Kazantzakis Nikos
People
People connected with this theme.
Bakunin Mikhail
1814 – 1876 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Cabral Amílcar
1924 – 1973 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Che Guevara
1928 – 1967 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Craveirinha Jose
1922 – 2003 Poetry
Darwish Maḥmoud
1941 – 2008 Poetry
Eluard Paul
1895 – 1952 Poetry
Faiz Ahmad
1911 – 1984 Poetry
Gandhi
1869 – 1948 Philosophy
Goldman Emma
1869 – 1940 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Hikmet Nazim
1902 – 1963 Poetry
Jara Victor
1932 – 1973 Poetry
Kazantzakis Nikos
1883 – 1957 Literature
Kropotkin
1842 – 1921 Philosophy
Locke John
1632 – 1704 Philosophy
Lumumba Patrice
1925 – 1961 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Malatesta
1853 – 1932 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Mandela Nelson
1918 – 2013 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Martí Jose
1853 – 1902 ΠΟΙΗΤΗΣ
Montesquieu
1689 – 1755 Literature
Orwell George
1903 – 1950 Literature
Paine Thomas
1737 – 1809 Philosophy
Popper Karl
1902 – 1994 Philosophy
Proudhon
1809 – 1865 Philosophy
Rizal Jose
1861 – 1896 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ
Rousseau
1712 – 1778 Philosophy
Sartre
1905 – 1980 Philosophy
Shevchenko
1814 – 1861 Poetry
Spinoza
1632 – 1677 Philosophy
Voltaire
1694 – 1778 Philosophy
Washington George
1732 – 1799 ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗQuotes
Selected words connected with this theme.
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“Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.”
Isokratis
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“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Will Durant
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“Later, in a more perfect society,
someone else made just like me
is certain to appear and act freely.”
Cavafy
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“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
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Sartre
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“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
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Darwin
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“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Morrison Jim
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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
”
Thucydides
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“Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings”
Mandela Nelson
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“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
Gorky Maxim
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“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.””
Robespierre
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“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
Martí Jose
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“In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
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Tesla
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“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
Marcuse Herbert
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“Education means freedom.”
Freire Paulo
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“Bless us with freedom, <br>bless us with wisdom,<br>
Guide into kind world,<br>”
Lysenko Mykola
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“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Dylan Bob
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Morrison Jim
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“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Washington George
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“I've found that there is always some beauty left, in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
Frank Anne
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“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Durant Will
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“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!”
Gorky Maxim
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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
Freud Sigmund
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“There is no freedom, no culture without work.”
Eminescu
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“From now on, our duty as Negro-Africans is plain. We remain free to travel with the current, or to row against it.
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Senghor Leopold
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“Love of freedom,
but not the freedom acquired at the expense
of others' freedom,
”
Jara Victor
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“Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men”
Lumumba Patrice
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“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Pound Ezra
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
Spinoza
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“There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.”
Tyutchev Fyodor
Book Excerpts
Selected passages from books connected with this theme.
1984
Orwell George
Excerpts
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure …
Anarchism and Other Essays
Goldman Emma · 1910
But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flath …
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Popper Karl · 1945
(selected excerpts)
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the me …
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque
First pages and selected excerpts
ONE
We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans. We are satisfied and at peace. Each man has anothe …
From Animal Farm
Orwell George
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” “I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do not imagine, com …
Invictus
Henley William · 1875
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeo …
Poems
Selected poems connected with this theme.
Where the Mind Is Without Fear
Tagore · 1912
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where t …
The Long war
Bai Li
They fought last year by the upper valley of Son-Kan, This year by the high ranges of the Leek Mountains,
They are still fighting ... fighting! ...
They wash their swords and armor
in the cold waves of the Tiao-Chih S …
Hellas
Shelley Percy · 1822
(Final Chorus)
The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving drea …
Bangladesh II
Faiz Ahmad · 1971
This is how my sorrow became visible:
the dust that had gathered in my heart for years
finally reached my eyes.
The bitterness was now so clear
that I had to listen when my friends
told me to wash my eyes with blo …