Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life is to be, which it demands from the individual and from nations.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who h
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
The human being who has lost his humanity is by definition a human being without any will or personality.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
