Freedom Quotes

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.

Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto a treadmill and never got off.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.

I am dedicated to ensuring reproductive health and freedom for all.

Some suggested over the weekend that it is wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami.

In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.

For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

I don't think that the world will ever become an unpoliced place, sadly. But I do feel that there is relative freedom on the margins.

For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

I think there is a big group of people out there who disagree about what is going on. They want to have their privacy back, they want to have internet freedom.

I understand that drugs aren't for everybody, I think it's an issue of personal freedom of choice.

Dracula, if he could see modern corporations, wouldnt like them much. He took care of his people, at least as he saw it. They had very little freedom, but they had a protector.

You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals.

With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life

Like the bright, cool dawn after a night of prison and of thunder, Man can taste that freedom sought so long.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

Free is not the same as free and easy.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Did you tell freedom hello for me?

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

Freedom, which is an aspect of health, remains impossible as long as we perceive our bodies as a complete definition of ourselves.

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain.

School gives you the freedom to explore different philosophies, religions, aspects of yourself, and subjects.