Freedom Quotes

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

Primarily, Warsaw and Brussels share the central basic values of the EU: human dignity, democracy, and the religious freedom of every single human being. We believe in these values.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The reason I love being a senator is that I can have whatever thoughts I have, say whatever I want about any subject at any time, and that is a wonderful feeling of freedom, and I cherish that.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I started to write in earnest.

Man is condemned to be free

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

Entrepreneurship is the freedom to do what you want, when you want, how you want.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

National Defense is not a threat to peace; it is the guarantee of peace with freedom.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.

I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

I never had credit card debt... I was very much about trying to gain my freedom, so it was about saving.

I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true and all others are not.

As I've watched the Berlin Wall come down, the cry for freedom in China, and the eastern bloc nations, I rejoice, because I see the bankruptcy of Marxist-Leninism, socialism in this world.

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

If you're going to accept freedom, there's the freedom to be stupid.

Anything in life has a ying and a yang. It has a good and a bad. And in the case of freedom, well, freedom also gives you the freedom to be stupid.

With freedom comes responsibility

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.