Posts Tagged ‘Freedom’

November 21st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Lawyer, P No Comments »

Peter Benenson

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson

It’s the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments – and that’s what matters.
Peter Benenson

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world’s countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or “disappearance” to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson

Open your newspaper – any day of the week – and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who “disappeared”. That’s what the candle is for.
Peter Benenson

 

May 15th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Politician No Comments »

Bob Beauprez

For too long, our country’s version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
Bob Beauprez

I’ve found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing.
Bob Beauprez

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
Bob Beauprez

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Bob Beauprez

Terri’s death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
Bob Beauprez

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Bob Beauprez

Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
Bob Beauprez

May 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Theologian No Comments »

Bruno Bauer

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
Bruno Bauer

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
Bruno Bauer

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
Bruno Bauer

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.
Bruno Bauer

April 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, L, Musician No Comments »

Les Baxter

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
Les Baxter

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
Les Baxter

I write emotional music.
Les Baxter

I’m not an intellectual composer.
Les Baxter

I’ve been down there 6 times and there’s nothing like Brazilian percussion.
Les Baxter

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.
Les Baxter

Well, that’s the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter

I don’t try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.
Les Baxter

I love doing concert music.
Les Baxter

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
Les Baxter

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
Les Baxter

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
Les Baxter

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
Les Baxter

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter

I’ve never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
Les Baxter

March 31st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, G, Politician No Comments »

Gresham Barrett

While war is never anyone first choice, sometimes it is a necessary choice.
Gresham Barrett

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.
Gresham Barrett

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
Gresham Barrett

I will always support legislation which respects and values life.
Gresham Barrett

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.
Gresham Barrett

March 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, J, Poet No Comments »

John Barbour

And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.
John Barbour

February 28th, 2011 A, Author Types, Authors, Poet No Comments »

Amiri Baraka

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Amiri Baraka

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri Baraka

There is other disturbing facts surround the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from the third floor bathroom window of our homes!
Amiri Baraka

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Amiri Baraka

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
Amiri Baraka

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Amiri Baraka

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Amiri Baraka

December 31st, 2010 Author, Author Types, Authors, H No Comments »

Hans Christian Anderson

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
Hans Christian Anderson

December 6th, 2010 Author, Author Types, Authors, H No Comments »

Hans Christian Andersen

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen

Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Hans Christian Andersen

Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

November 22nd, 2010 Author, Author Types, Authors, L No Comments »

Leo Buscaglia

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time… It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Leo Buscaglia

I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Leo Buscaglia

If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia