Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself."

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky  

"People may or may not say what they mean...
but they always say something designed to get what they want."

~ David Mamet  

"People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation."

~ Soren Kierkegaard  

"There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant 'to be known,'
that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make."

~ Carl Sagan  

"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."

~ Dr. Benjamin Rush  

"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all.
It can neither be declared from pulpits,
nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared
and sold in packages ready for use.
Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such,
with such help as he can get, indeed,
but not without stern labor of his own."

~ John Ruskin  

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

~ Horace  

"The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

~ Matthew Arnold  

"If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

~ Rene Descartes  

"The battle for the world is the battle for definitions."

~ Thomas Szasz  

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society."

~ Henrik Ibsen  

"Increasingly constructive doubt is
the sign of advancing civilization."

~ Jerome D. Frank  

"Instead of looking on discussion
as a stumbling block in the way of action,
we think it an indispensable preliminary
to any wise action at all."

~ Pericles  

"No man is wise enough by himself."

~ Titus Maccius Plautus