Freedom Quotes
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
In my opinion, it is only when Hindu society becomes a casteless society that it can hope to have strength enough to defend itself. Without suchinternal strength, swaraj for Hindus may turn out to be only a step towards slavery.
Pakistan is merely another manifestation of a cultural unit demanding freedom for the growth of its own distinctive culture.
Any Government which denied this elementary right of freedom of speech and freedom of action did not deserve allegiance from the people.
These will suffice to show that the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of the people.
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.
The Turkish Nation consists of the valiant descendants of a people that has lived independently and has considered independence the sole condition of existence.
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