Freedom Quotes
At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is a slave to his own weaknesses.
When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...
To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger.
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.
Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on that they don’t want the public knowing about.
The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
President Obama is currently on a week-long trip to Africa, where he will promote freedom, democracy, and economic opportunity. I guess he figured it hasn't worked here - so try it somewhere else.
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient should be said or written.
The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Just real. I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. And more importantly, I want to have the freedom to bring everyone else along with me.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
We need a President that all Americans can respect, not a celebrity who uses words like freedom and liberty like they are a punchline in a reality show.
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.
Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.