Freedom Quotes

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Alone, no one wins freedom.

In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.

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.

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.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

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.

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies.

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

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

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

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

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

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

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

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

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

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

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.

... 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.

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.