Freedom Quotes

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

How could they say that my religion, Islam was a 'race hate' religion after all the plunder and enslavement and domination of my people by white Christians in the name of white supremacy?

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I ‘ultimately’ do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer

No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation.

I had my freedom and that was nice.

Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.

Time is a factory where everyone slaves away earning enough love to break their own chains.

Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I wouldn't perform in front of the Nazis. I hear they didn't take freedom of speech too well. It would be a fun gig to rip into them, but I don't think the ending would be great for me.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

...with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.

May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.