Freedom Quotes

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

Caged birds sing of freedom, free birds fly.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

I was born, have lived, and will die free.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and have fun.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.