Freedom Quotes

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.

We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

Love of country follows from the exercise of its freedoms, not from pride in its fleets or its armies.

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.

The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

I need you more than I need freedom.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom.

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.

Ramadan is a month whose beginning is Mercy, whose middle is Forgiveness and whose end is Freedom from the fire.

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

...whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

I think in the world of rock music or whatever it's called - anything outside of Nashville - there's a lot more freedom within that industry to do whatever you want to do.

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty.

Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?

Driving, for me, means power and freedom. The feeling that I can go anywhere I want at any time is exhilarating.

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's lives and business - and leaving people alone.

One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.

Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

Freedom comes when you learn to let go, creation comes when you learn to say 'no'

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.