Freedom Quotes

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

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 clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

Freedom is self-determination.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.