Freedom Quotes

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

The price of freedom is death.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

We have freedom to demonstrate in Germany, but there is no place for incitement and insulting people who come to us from other countries.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people...

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.'