Freedom Quotes

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.

The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

. . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.