freedom
“Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science.”
“The problem is not to discover in oneself the truth of one's sex, but, rather, to use one's sexuality henceforth to arrive at a multiplicity of relationships.”
“We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.”
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.”
“We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance.”
“We should try to discover who we are and refuse what we are.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”
“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
“Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.”
“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
“Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”
“To forget the years, to forget distinctions—leap into the boundless and make it your home.”