Freedom Quotes
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.
Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.
As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.
It would be consistent and proper for us to join the war for democratic freedom, only if we would likewise be assured that democratic freedom in theory as well as in practice.
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that.
I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.
Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.
To do something for someone or something you loved-England or Shakespeare or a dog or the Hodbins or history-wasn't a sacrifice at all. Even if it cost you your freedom, your life, your youth.
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.
Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.
The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.
The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.
The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
