Freedom Quotes

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

I'M FREE! - I'm free, And freedom tastes of reality, I'm free - I'm free, An' I'm waiting for you to follow me.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Love is freedom. The freedom to express the most joyous part of Who You Are. The part that knows that you are One with everything and everyone.

Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.