Freedom Quotes

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

Free love is sometimes love but never freedom.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.

I was 13 and a teenager, as well. When you're that age, you want to be an adult, in a way, but you don't want to have the responsibilities of an adult. You still want to have the freedom.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

Just a turn of the doorknob, and there lies freedom.

I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint.

When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

I crave the freedom of knowing that if I want to do something, I can do it. It's important that I live in such a way that I can maintain a direct response to ideas.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

Everyone has freedom to say whatever they want to say. I think it takes a stronger person to hold their tongue as opposed to speaking out.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

What I'm really interested in is freedom.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.

Freedom can be killed by neglect as well as by direct attack.

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

There's not enough dust to cloud our love for freedom.

Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you're just really miserable.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

All the freedom enjoyed in America, beyond what is enjoyed in England, is enjoyed solely by the disorderly at the expense of the orderly.