The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.
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Human beings crave freedom at their core.
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
Noir is a court of human relations, and some crimes are beyond legal restitution.
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.