Freedom Quotes

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

True freedom from fear consists of totally resigning one's life into the hands of the Lord.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

A child needs freedom within limits.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

There is only one decision you need to make: You are either working at your Freedom or you are accepting your bondage.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

In the Islamic government all people have complete freedom to have any kind of opinion.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.

[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.