L Quotes
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“Liberty will always triumph over fear and fundamentalism. Our desire to be free is greater than their desire to terrorise and our capacity to love far exceeds their capacity to hate.”
“Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...”
“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.”
Source: The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777
“Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.”
“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
“Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.”
Source: Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792
“LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.”
Source: The Poems, 1951-1967
“Liberty'''.that condition of man in which coercion of some by others is reduced as much as possible in society”
“Liberty's chief foe is theology.”
“Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.”
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.”
Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections
“Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.”
Source: On the contrary
“Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.”
“Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable”
Source: Don Quixote
“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
Source: a tale of two cities
“Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.”
“Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.”
“Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality”
“Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.”
“Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.”
“Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.”
“Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.”
“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”
“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.”
Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)
“Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.”
“Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.”
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
Source: The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784
“Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.”
Source: The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind
“Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!”
Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost.”
“Liberty, then, is the SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL.”
“Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
Source: The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot
“Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.”
“liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.”
Source: Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“Liberty, without wisdom, is license.”
“Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Liberty? Independence? Are they to remain only words? Gentlemen, let us make them fighting words!”
“Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.”
“Libertà e uguglianza sono tra gli scopi primari perseguiti dagli esseri umani per secoli; ma libertà totale per i lupi significa morte per gli agnelli; una totale libertà dei potenti, dei capaci, non è compatibile col diritto che anche i deboli e i meno capaci hanno a una vita decente. Un artista che voglia creare un capolavoro è indifferente alla miseria e allo squallore a cui condanna col suo tipo di esistenza la propria famiglia: noi possiamo condannarlo e sostenere che il capolavoro dev'essere sacrificato ai bisogni umani, oppure possiamo schierarci dalla parte dell'artista; ma in entrambi i casi ci troviamo davanti a valori che per certi uomini e donne sono valori assoluti e che sono intelleggibili a tutti noi se abbiamo immaginazione o solidarietà o comprensione per gli esseri umani. L'uguaglianza può esigere la limitazione della libertà di coloro che vorrebbero dominare. Senza un minimo di libertà ogni scelta è esclusa e perciò non c'è possibilità di restare umani nel senso che attribuiamo a questa parola; ma può essere necessario mettere limiti alla libertà per fare spazio al benessere sociale, per sfamare gli affamati, per vestire gli ignudi, per dare un alloggio ai senza tetto, per consentire agli altri di essere liberi, per non ostacolare la giustizia e l'equità.”
Source: The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
“libertà" è una parola che non tace mai.”
Source: Neppure il silenzio è più tuo
“Liberté
Sur mes cahiers d'écolier
Sur mon pupitre et les arbres
Sur le sable de neige
J'écris ton nom
Sur toutes les pages lues
Sur toutes les pages blanches
Pierre sang papier ou cendre
J'écris ton nom
Sur les images dorées
Sur les armes des guerriers
Sur la couronne des rois
J'écris ton nom
Sur la jungle et le désert
Sur les nids sur les genêts
Sur l'écho de mon enfance
J'écris ton nom
Sur les merveilles des nuits
Sur le pain blanc des journées
Sur les saisons fiancées
J'écris ton nom
Sur tous mes chiffons d'azur
Sur l'étang soleil moisi
Sur le lac lune vivante
J'écris ton nom
Sur les champs sur l'horizon
Sur les ailes des oiseaux
Et sur le moulin des ombres
J'écris ton nom
Sur chaque bouffées d'aurore
Sur la mer sur les bateaux
Sur la montagne démente
J'écris ton nom
Sur la mousse des nuages
Sur les sueurs de l'orage
Sur la pluie épaisse et fade
J'écris ton nom
Sur les formes scintillantes
Sur les cloches des couleurs
Sur la vérité physique
J'écris ton nom
Sur les sentiers éveillés
Sur les routes déployées
Sur les places qui débordent
J'écris ton nom
Sur la lampe qui s'allume
Sur la lampe qui s'éteint
Sur mes raisons réunies
J'écris ton nom
Sur le fruit coupé en deux
Du miroir et de ma chambre
Sur mon lit coquille vide
J'écris ton nom
Sur mon chien gourmand et tendre
Sur ses oreilles dressées
Sur sa patte maladroite
J'écris ton nom
Sur le tremplin de ma porte
Sur les objets familiers
Sur le flot du feu béni
J'écris ton nom
Sur toute chair accordée
Sur le front de mes amis
Sur chaque main qui se tend
J'écris ton nom
Sur la vitre des surprises
Sur les lèvres attendries
Bien au-dessus du silence
J'écris ton nom
Sur mes refuges détruits
Sur mes phares écroulés
Sur les murs de mon ennui
J'écris ton nom
Sur l'absence sans désir
Sur la solitude nue
Sur les marches de la mort
J'écris ton nom
Sur la santé revenue
Sur le risque disparu
Sur l'espoir sans souvenir
J'écris ton nom
Et par le pouvoir d'un mot
Je recommence ma vie
Je suis né pour te connaître
Pour te nommer
Liberté”
“Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.
And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.”
“Libet’s EEG experiments suggest that we might not have free will. If the results of the experiment are to be believed, then what is the point? What is the fun if everything is determined? Wouldn’t Almighty get bored with us? We are more than our thoughts. And we are certainly way more than our actions. But how and why?”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“libidinous, adj.
I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.”