Quotation Explorer - 'Freedom'

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult. - Debasish Mridha

Silence gives you freedom to talk yourself fearlessly - Ar Rohit bhardwaj

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. - B.R. Ambedkar

Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.- - RVM

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. - Stephen Jay Gould

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.

When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys. - George Orwell

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. - Pierre Berton

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden) - Rosa Luxemburg

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right. - Peter Marshall

In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state’s power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom. - Wilhelm Röpke

True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you. - Debasish Mridha

It's a season of life, if your granted peace, freedom and you got the right person to love. - Auliq Ice

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. - Eric Hoffer

Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. - Jean-Paul Sartre

The only freedom of choice you have is the ability to define your own path and destiny. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom is what's left when the belief systems deconstruct. - Dana Gore

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his. - Tom Stoppard

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other? - Alexander Hamilton

As a soul, you have the freedom – and earned responsibility – to transpose your personal process of evolution, to manifest your greatest talents and vision, into the work that matters to you most as a means to personal redemption. - Darrell Calkins

There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom. - Amah Lambert

The enemies of freedom are strong but freedom is stronger. - Marty Rubin

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. - Anonymous

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. - Tiberius

To love everyone unconditionally does not mean to give everyone your unconditional time. Sometimes, to love completely, we must never see someone again. This, too, is love. This is giving someone the freedom to exist and be happy, even if it must be without you. - Vironika Tugaleva

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable. - Steve Maraboli

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life. - Yukito Kishiro

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. - Connie Willis

We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. - Kanye West

To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments. - Debasish Mridha

I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though our vein's to be someone/something much more than human. - sequence kye kenneth young

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom. - Ludwig von Mises

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. - Horace Greeley

Freedom means either be mindful or do not mind. - Aditya Ajmera

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms. - Cornel West

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication. - Todd William

Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. - Malcolm X

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty. - Frank Herbert

I have learned its the most difficult thing to become financially free from earning the minimum wage. So even if employees increase the minimum wage its the same thing. But once employees improve on their skills and personal value their wages go up and then financial freedom is posible. - Derric Yuh Ndim

We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That’s a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility. - Darrell Calkins

The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while,the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people. - Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go. - Marty Rubin

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. - John Stuart Mill

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want. - Pamela Madsen

The greater a man’s folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom. - Santosh Kalwar

If I had to sum up homeschooling in one word, it would be freedom. - Tamara L. Chilver

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned. - Auliq Ice

The first principle of freedom is that we are responsible for our actions. - Marty Rubin

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom. - Horace Greeley

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. - Ayn Rand

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom. - W.H. Auden

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be - James Baldwin

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother. - Bohumil Hrabal

There is freedom in homeschooling. - Tamara L. Chilver

The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental. - Debasish Mridha

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt. - H.A. Dorfman

taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path. Carl Sagan - Frederick Douglass

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State. - Murray N. Rothbard

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Sir Winston Churchill

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison. - Amit Kalantri

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it. - DaShanne Stokes

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. - Mark Twain

When all things seem to fail, stand on your inner strength, shovel today's challenges for your tomorrow's freedom. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

Freedom is the right to get up and leave. - Marty Rubin

If you are not thinking differently, you are not exercising your freedom. - Debasish Mridha

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are myrevolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity ofconsciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitationto death—and I refuse suicide. - Albert Camus

While the whole world is struggling to help people get their freedom from the dangers of smoking, yet the over five million people, who yearly die from smoking still voluntarily head towards that deadly part. - Sunday Adelaja

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Freedom gives room for creativity. - Paul Bamikole

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears. - Auliq Ice

One of the most effective ways to empower a group is to help them get finance.Yes, money.Whether it be women, minority groups etc.Without economic independence, freedom is a hoax - Magnus Nwagu Amudi

Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man’s flying to the land of silence. - Mehmet Murat ildan

Freedom is within.Only God can give it to you. - Ocean Crisstopher Poet

There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted norms. In this kind of climate, even the mildest questions sound like heresy, and the outcome is intolerance of other people’s beliefs, ideas, actions and freedoms. - Keith Harmon

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. - George Weigel

If art serves any purpose at all it is to keep the spirit of freedom alive. - Marty Rubin

Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment. - Grigoris Deoudis

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. - Colette

He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can’t be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay. - Charlotte Eriksson

We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours. - Natsume Soseki

& may you shine on in the sky with diamonds & dreams...do it for the suit behind the platform, who only wished he were free.have strength in freedom. - L V HALL

Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it. - Garth Greenwell

The right people make you realize fame and fortune is cool, but small moments of pure freedom is better. - Darnell Lamont Walker

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it? - Harriett Beecher-Stowe

Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy. - Eric J. Martindale

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. - Alan Dean Foster

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Anyone who equates freedom with madness is mad themselves. - Marty Rubin

There is freedom waiting for you,On the breezes of the sky,And you ask "What if I fall?"Oh but my darling,What if you fly? - Erin Hanson

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse. - Auliq Ice

Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness. - John R. Dallas Jr.

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both. - Tiffany Madison

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives. - Sri Madhava

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear. - John Kerry

Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility. - Kevin Stirtz

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible. - Enza Vita

My reasons to liveWere my reasons to dieBut at least they were mineNow I've freedom unboundCut the laces of life - Emilie Autumn

Same thing now; my freedom had to be paired with availability, or else it became a disorder. - Sophie Fontanel

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. - Mark Twain

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. - Thomas Sowell

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. - C.S. Lewis

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped. - Martin Luther King Jr.

This is a party that used to embrace freedom but now they've abandoned the principles of Thomas Jefferson and adopted the tactics of Joseph Stalin.' he says. And he, (Eric O'Keefe) notes that those tactics are even aimed at fellow Democrats who don't fall in line. - Kimberly Strassel

I don't walk my freedom on a leash, my freedom walks side by side with me. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The wind and sky know that there is no joy in unlimited freedom - Munia Khan

We gain freedom when we learn to overcome fears. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. - Ronald Reagan

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it's between freedom and totalitarianism. - Frank H. Underhill

Americans are artisans in freedom. - Derrick G. Jeter

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein

The most important condition for progress is freedom of the mind. - Debasish Mridha

Give freedom to colours and then you shall meet the rainbow everywhere! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Part of the fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Once you get married, however, a good defense is frequency and freedom. - Mark Driscoll

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. - Rita Mae Brown

There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind. - Deepak Chopra

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. - Jim Morrison

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. - Ronald Reagan

Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free. - Daniel Delgado F

Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. - Hugh MacLeod

Every man is condemned to freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free. - Shah Asad Rizvi

Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road. - Tamara L. Chilver

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy

Turn your wound into wisdom, then help people to find true freedom. - Debasish Mridha

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward - Patricia Sampson

We can reach untainted experiential freedom, by living in the moment as it is—without contemplation. Here we find the possibility of freedom—of just being—living as our authentic self. We are our true nature. We are one and whole. - Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is KEY to acceptance. - Abby Espiritu

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom. - Mehmet Murat ildan

I don't believe in work or education. I believe in freedom. - Marty Rubin

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence. - Krishnamurti

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words. - Patti Smith

The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled. - Alice Walker

I'm convinced that the greatest lover of freedom & liberty is God almighty himself. He gave us free will, the greatest liberty of all. - Justin Steckbauer

Unfortunately, money is freedom in today's world.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. - John Milton

The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values. - Phyllis Schlafly

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? - George Carlin

I am living breathing freedom - Hiroko Sakai

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. - Edith Wharton

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - John Philpot Curran

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. - John Waters

People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a giftbecause it represents a unique form of human freedom. - Eraldo Banovac

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. - Jon Stewart

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of. - Milton Friedman

We need Wisdom to seek for the Kindom and we need the Kingdom to have the Freedom to posess all other things! - Israelmore Ayivor

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege? - DaShanne Stokes

Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind. - TinaJ. Richardson

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it. - Marino Baccarini

If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom. - Stefan Molyneux

Of what use is your Wealth and Kingdom if you don't have the Liberation and Freedom to Be what you want to Be. - RVM

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age - Baris Gencel

Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become. - Richie Norton

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. - George W. Bush

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - Will Durant

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so. - A.W. Tozer

There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide. - Luigina Sgarro

Passion is the journey inward.. Purpose is the journey overcoming the fear.. Know Freedom and Leave Your Legend. - Jonathan Bailey

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. - C. Wright Mills

The greatest desire is the desire to be free. The greatest freedom is the freedom to desire. - R.A.Delmonico

Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside. - John Kremer

To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've stumbled upon the very freedom I've longed for in the very place I'd least expected it. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul. - Flavia

And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. - John F. Kennedy

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science. - Charles Darwin

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom and independence form my character. - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man -in temperament, character, and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. - Frank Chodorov

Fear is a product of doubt. it is a negative energy. Fear is an opposite of faith. Law is not necessary for people who have freedom. Law is the control switch that produces fear. That Fear produces lawful citizens is a delusion, it only creates fearful citizens . - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

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

Do not seek wealth or splendor, but seek true wisdom, freedom, and joy of life. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom in thinking gives you the opportunity to follow your passions and dreams. - Auliq Ice

Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination. - Carla H. Krueger

For the prosperous, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want. - T. Harv Eker

When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book? - Pat Conroy

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands. - Auberon Herbert

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. - Robert Jackson

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela

Without freedom of sex; all freedoms are temporary. - M.F. Moonzajer

There are those that want freedom from individual responsibility, and then there are those that want individual liberty. "Freedom" and "liberty" no longer mean what they used to. A desire for dependence has been made fashionably desirable. - A.E. Samaan

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. - John Updike

They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this fact. Economic coercion is just a different form of force, which they couple with the fraud of calling it freedom. I was like them, but I will never be like them again. - Robert Peate

This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

I am an atheist but I promise whenever there is complete freedom of religion I would worship you as my private and individual God. - M.F. Moonzajer

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner world incarnation in his art. - Leon Trotsky

If art serves any purpose at all, it is to keep alive the spirit of freedom. - Marty Rubin

There's a kind of purity to a relationship unencumbered by convention, a sense of simplicity and freedom. - Jp Delaney

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression. - Unarine Ramaru

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling. - Chuck Klosterman

Freedom does not come withterms and conditionsDon't let anyone eversell you that. - Anjum Choudhary

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. - Benjamin Franklin

Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another. - Chris Vonada

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything. - Jim Morrison

Life’s mystery continued to trouble meA question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult? - Suman Pokhrel

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad. - Friedrich Hayek

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself. - Goldie Hawn

By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom. - Maria Flynn

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. - Jim Morrison

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. - Jimmy Carter

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience. - Diane Keaton

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it. - Zarina Bibi

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. - James Truslow Adams

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible. - Karl Marx

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. - Max Stirner

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep. - Isaiah Berlin

When Mandela passed away, the long walk to freedom will be longer and harder. I wish with my tears that every parent tell about Mandela to their children, shall their children grow up firmly and with faith. - Professor Pezhman Mosleh

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is a kind of freedom that can be felt and heard; it is an inestimable treasure for a man entirely deprived of true liberty. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Freedom of thoughts are more important than any other kind of freedom. - Debasish Mridha

Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn. - Stewart Stafford

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Benjamin Franklin

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength - George Orwell

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard

You cultivate the essential virtues: high purpose, intelligence, decency, humility, fear of the Lord, and the passion for freedom.

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom. - Debasish Mridha

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is. - Chriscinthia Blount

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it. - Ben Carson

He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way. - Swami Dhyan Giten

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. - Boyd K. Packer

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. - Jean-Paul Sartre

In riding a horse, we borrow freedom - Helen Thompson

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something youassume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree towhich you resist is the degree to which you are free... - Utah Phillips

True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness. - Matthew Donnelly

Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X

...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. - John Quincy Adams

Freedom is from within. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Without order as a foundation, the cry for freedom is nothing more than the attempt of some group or another to achieve its own ends. When actually carried out in practice, that cry for freedom will inevitably express itself in tyranny. - Prince Klemens von Metternich

What do you mean by sound government?'Good public order, no corruption in high places, freedom from fear and war and crime, a reasonably equitable distribution of wealth and resources, concern for the individual life.'Then we haven't got sound government. - P.D. James

Someone said: friends are the thiefs of time. I shall add: of time, freedom, life; and givers of best memories, brightest moments, true feelings. - Mykyta Isagulov

A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him. - Auliq Ice

God Give Us PeaceWithout Peace We Are Without Freedom - Ellen J. Barrier

Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom. - Susan Sontag

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness. - Frederick Douglass

Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it. - H.G. Mewis

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for human rights. - Ellen J. Barrier

When sighs are hypnotized by sorrowHappy moments you need to borrowFrom a little child or from a birdWho has the wild freedom of soul: stirred! - Munia Khan

True freedom comes only from true wisdom. - Debasish Mridha

Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles! - Mehmet Murat ildan

If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist. - ELW-Reta Barnes

People who don't exercise their freedom of voting (choosing their leaders) are irresponsible. Such people have no right to complain or want more than what they are receiving from the government. Intentional failure to vote is cowardly, irresponsible and a sign of ignorance. - Allan Amanyire

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings. - Joseph BH McMillan

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism. - Noam Chomsky

Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life. - John F. Kennedy

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. - Friedrich Schiller

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. - Colin Powell

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two. - Edmund S. Morgan

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. - Susan B. Anthony

Life is full of choices.Your choice is your true freedom. - Lailah Gifty Akita

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. - Mahatma Gandhi

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions. - Anais Nin

Freedom of thought is meaningless without the freedom to act. - Marty Rubin

The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys:Power, like a desolating pestilence,Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience,Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,A mechanised automaton. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - Abraham Lincoln

Life becomes much more easier when we do what we say and when we say what we do. Having courage to be ourselves is a gateway to freedom and happiness. - Raphael Zernoff

Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. - Friedrich Nietzsche

James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song. - Alice Hoffman

The most important freedom, is the power to think and to do. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can’t for long conceal the toxic spots on your character—Philip Larkin is Exhibit A—nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom. - William Giraldi

The secret of happiness is freedom but to be totally free you need to earn: courage, persistence and boldness. - Santosh Kalwar

The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have the more free you are. Poverty for us is a freedom. It is not mortification, a penance. It is joyful freedom. There is no television here, no this, no that. But we are perfectly happy. - Mother Teresa

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others. - John F. Kennedy

Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety. - M.L. Wulff

What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. - Epictetus

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy

Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government. - George Reisman

Education is for freedom - freedom from mental slavery. - Ogwo David Emenike

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear! - Stan Lee

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society. - Pope John Paul II

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. - Peter Ustinov

I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. - Stephen Fry

Enjoy your freedom today, leave the regret for tomorrow. - M.F. Moonzajer

Freedom is the right to live without fear. - Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

Bridge burned from end to end,and I don't miss you anymore.You delivered silenceI've birthed freedom. - Jessica Kristie

He is a true King who has the Freedom to do anything!- - RVM

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. - Rob Bell

So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is. - Niall Ferguson

Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two. - Michel Templet

If your freedom can not develop you than it is better to alive as a slave. - Aditya Pandya

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. - Oscar Arias Sanchez

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love. - Amit Kalantri

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls. - W.E.B. Du Bois

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. - Rosa Parks

World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom - Jay Woodman

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time! - Mehmet Murat ildan

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. - Betty Friedan

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour. - Jason E. Hodges

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. - Don Miguel Ruiz

No one can give you freedom; you only find it when you learn to overcome your fears. - Debasish Mridha

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom. - Colin Wilson

If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter? - Richie Norton

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. - Albert Camus

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire. - Christmas Humphreys

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. - Malcolm X

Freedom is the privilege of exercising responsibility. - John Spencer Yantiss

The function of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison

Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom. - Michael Phillip Cash

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing freedom of choice, then eventually we snuff out desire while leaving demand in tact. - Geoffrey Wood

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert

Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is that it gives me the greater freedom of playing the fool. - Alexander Pope

Hatred towards thy neighbor is the cage that deprives us from social freedom. - Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't. - Naomi Klein

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion. - Duop Chak Wuol

They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, its gonna scare 'em.

Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man — in temperament, character, and capacity — and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. - Frank Chodorov

There is no order or freedom without simplicity. - Marty Rubin

Freedom began on the day the first sheep wandered away from the herd. - Marty Rubin

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily. - Joyce Carol Oates

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be. - Daniel J. Boorstin

The worst abuse of freedom is to deny that it exists. - Marty Rubin

Every advance in human freedom is initially perceived as a decline in morals. - Marty Rubin

Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. - Cicero

If we can accept the laws of the universe, the ebb and flow of joy and tragedy, then we have everything we need to embrace our true freedom. - Sarah Winman

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good. - Philip Pullman

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness. - G.I. Gurdjieff

This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none. - Yuval Noah Harari

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue. - Arzak Khan

Absolute freedom means absolute lawlessness. - Sunday Adelaja

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions. - Walter Lippmann

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman

Knowledge is the ultimate key to open the door to freedom. - Debasish Mridha

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of actionand expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society. - Simon LeVay

Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks! - Mehmet Murat ildan

the sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas-bhagat singh in court during his trial, india's struggle for freedom - Bhagat Singh

Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. - Steve Maraboli

None of us have true freedom because every one of us has to conform. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom is a clear conscience. - Periander

Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like. - Raheel Farooq

Man is free rather than man is freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice. - Simon Boylan

Without Freedom or Liberty, creativity can not exist. - Richard Diaz

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence. - Bertrand Russell

There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind. - Randy Gardner

For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do...[Lucifer] - Glen Duncan

Chaos is any order opposed to freedom. - Marty Rubin

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others. - Rafael k Nunes

Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.Poetry causes the increase of the human race.Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.Poetry is the royal essence of beauty. - Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Rich people think long-term. they balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tommorow - Hyacil Han

I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. - Mahatma Gandhi

Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it. It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go. - Hugh Macleod

Two things form the bedrock of any open society — freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country."[Don’t allow religious hooligans to dictate terms (The Times of India, January 16, 2008)] - Salman Rushdie

The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten

There are two sides to life for every individual: a personal life, in which his freedom exists in proportion to the abstract nature of his interests, and an elemental life within the swarm of humanity, in which a man inevitably follows laws laid down for him. - Leo Tolstoy

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens. - Stefan Molyneux

Failed coup has put the people in general on a long trudge to freedom while creating a situation to consolidate more power to exercise the legitimised arbitrariness of Erdoğanian democracy. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Freedom starts in the belief that we are capable of change. - Trish Blackwell

A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Your choices are your only freedom. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start. - Jason Mraz

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle. - Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. - Marvin Simkin

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. - John Quincy Adams

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin

The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self. - Caroline Knapp

If you see many paths before you, don't be afraid; if you see only one path before you, then be afraid because choice means freedom and no choice means slavery! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought. - Debasish Mridha

The At-mun-shi were as pagan as all the tribes in Africa, but they were peaceable and they were, as well, intense in their love of freedom. - Elizabeth Yates

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness. - Lana Del Rey

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom. - Ron Baratono

There is nothing sacred except the freedom to live peacefully and joyfully on one's own terms. - Marty Rubin

I need this wild life, this freedom. - Zane Grey

Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it. - Joaquim Nabuco

Economics has made good on its promise to deliver prosperity and democratic freedom to much of the world, but in doing away with the age-old problems of humanity, it has opened up a crisis of an entirely new variety. - Philip Roscoe

In any situation, the ability to see true beauty gives you true freedom. - Debasish Mridha

Always have the guts to tell people the things they must hear. Because your words, no matter how difficult to say, might be the gift to their freedom. Maybe, your unfounded fears were never theirs. Because truth is how people move on. - Shannon L. Alder

True freedom allows us to do all the good we can under God’s law. - The Liberty Book

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! - J.R.R. Tolkien

The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace. - Jay Woodman

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way. - George Weigel

i believe in the freedom of state where every people have to right develop their culture and maintain the democracy while two things are very essential justice and equality - Long Live Pakistan and Happy Independence Day - Avinash Advani

Propaganda is what gives us the freedom to do as we are told. - Markus W. Lunner

In the fight for freedom there is no defeat, you either achieve it or you die trying. In both cases you're as free as one can be. - Aryan Xebat‎

Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time. - Sarvesh Murthi .D.D

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Humility is not just thinking less of yourself or thinking lanyard less of your gifts than others,It is freedom from thinking of yourself at all - Barbara Cueto

Tolerance is certainly an improvement over hate, but it is not the same thing as freedom. - Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini

Living in a godless universe is our freedom, our salvation, not our tragedy. - Marty Rubin

I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though or vein's to be someone much more than human. - sequence kye kenneth young

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)] - Earl Warren

I pray moms will use ... [my] book[s] as a reference to arm themselves with God's grace and His Word to break away from the enemy's bondage and begin to experience peace and freedom in their homeschool journeys right away. - Tamara L. Chilver

The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true. - Stacy Keach

Unless you are free from your own mind, you can never truly experience the freedom with life. - Roshan Sharma

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Allow yourself the Freedom to Fail before you see Success Sail!- - RVM

Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic. - Nikki Rowe

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others. - Dave Champion

When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode; it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti). - Dada Bhagwan

If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Freedom is something that all pursue, and though you might not see it, people will risk a lot to have it. - Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Love ~ Truth ~ Freedom are three words that mean the same, and none may exist without the other present. - Alexia Penteleόn de aRcturi

Freedom of expression is more than a fashion statement. - Miss Vera

That frontier operated as a rough and ready homeostatic device; the more a state pressed its subjects, the fewer subjects it had. The frontier underwrote popular freedom. - James C. Scott

Our Life needs Love and Happiness, Secrets with Reveals , Satisfaction for a Peaceful Freedom.. - Jan Jansen

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom, morality, and humanity. - Michael Moore

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

Money, food, and sex are overrated. They become attachments that enslave the untrained mind. Freedom has no cravings. – - Kevin W. Reese

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results. - A.E. Samaan

Men promise freedom while establishing laws; God promises laws while establishing freedom. - Criss Jami

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming over-size dreams now. - Israelmore Ayivor

Wherever freedom is being discussed, we're all part of the conversation. - Marty Rubin

Freedom is alone the unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independent of the will and co-action of every other… - Immanuel Kant

You can't have freedom of religion with a religion that hates freedom! - Celso Cukierkorn

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. - Bob Marley

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison. - Nelson Mandela

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Do not let anyone to cage your freedom. Fight for your Freedom and dignity - Mohammed Sekouty

Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The freedom of poetic license. - Cicero

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains. - Mehmet Murat ildan

Freedom without structure is its own slavery. - David Brooks

This is part of the answer to the riddle ofchildhood unhappiness: their minds need, and deserve, a whole world of utterly unfenceable freedom where everything has othering, everything is radiant with the possibilities ofelseness. - Jay Griffeths

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people who want crops without ploughing the ground.

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? - Kurt Vonnegut

Living is the right to exercise Freedom any time without any guilt or whatsoever. Deathis living without Freedom. Resurrection is living for the Dead. Eternity is victory overdeath and not many will taste of it." - Freddy Schofeild Mahhumane - Freddy Sipho Mahhumane

Impression — I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape. - Claude Monet

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Just be yourself. It is the only freedom you will ever have. Besides, trying to be someone that you're not requires too much work-Mentally and physically. - Andrea L'Artiste

The time when freedom is no longer held in the highest regard is not during times of want or suffering, but during the era of civility, pleasure, and wealth. - Eric J. Martindale

Freedom of choice makes it possible to plan our lives and to make the most of ourselves. Yet if this freedom lacks noble goals or personal discipline, it degenerates into an inability to give oneself generously to others. - Pope Francis

We are determined to answer evil with GOOD, slavery with FREEDOM, rape with hope!We are against slavery, rape, beheading, torture, violations of human rights, corruption and misuse of religion! - Widad Akreyi

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive. - Adam Gopnik

We are united by our common fears and divided by our individual freedom! - Ramana Pemmaraju

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart - Leo Buscaglia

Augustine taught that true freedom is not choice or lack of constraint, but being what you are meant to be. Humans were created in the image of God. True freedom, then, is not found in moving away from that image but only in living it out. - Augustine of Hippo

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it. - Abraham Lincoln

Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality. - Debasish Mridha

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. - Charles Péguy

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. - Guy Clark

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. - Dan Quayle

Let us express our deepest gratitude to those who sacrificed their lives to give us freedom. Wish you all a very joyful Independence Day! - Debasish Mridha

Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom. - Victor Hugo

There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado

There is so much freedom in not having to choose. - Megan Hart

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. - Marty Rubin

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl. - Barry Schwartz

you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation. - Jeffrey Fischer

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. - Margaret Mitchell

Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph. - Michelle Cliff

Whoever loves life, loves freedom more. - Auliq Ice

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality. - M.F. Moonzajer

With out freedom nothing has value, Free agency is the only true key to happiness. - M.H. DuMond

True freedom exists beyond the bounds of our faculty of reason because rational beings can only reason practical freedoms even if first conceived in theory or as an idea. - Adam Kovacevic

My freedom to say 'No' directly underscores your freedom to say 'Yes'. RESPECT my freedom to PROTECT your freedom. - Mamur Mustapha

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination. - Debasish Mridha

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run. - Phyllis Diller

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. - Epictetus

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money. - Ken Poirot

Nearly all people stand in great horror of annihilation, and yet to give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself. Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. - Robert G. Ingersoll

But God has set no traps for us. Quite the contrary. He has summoned us to the only true and full freedom. - Elisabeth Elliot

The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its wild randomizing abandon the possibilities of innovation and transformations. - William Thompson

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words. - Langston Hughes

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can’t take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can’t take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right. - Faye Wattleton

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss. - Vishwas Chavan

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice. - Mike Norton

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice... - Henry Lindell

Freedom comes with a price while bondage takes hold without notice - Mark L. Baynard

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. - Lenin

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des AndersdenkendenFreedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. - Thomas Jefferson

Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. - John Adams

I choose to be alone cause I wanted to experience freedom, but I realized that freedom needs a companionship - Ahmed Alibage

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. - Søren Kierkegaard

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us! - Marck E. Estemil

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass. - Ambrose Bierce

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom... - Bell Hooks

Great art ignites a passion for freedom. - Marty Rubin

What is success? Freedom from lies. Living your truth. - J.R. Rim

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it - Roald Dahl

Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences. - Leeann Smith

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. - Mahatma Gandhi

Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live - Judy Azar LeBlanc

There is more than one kind of freedom...Freedom to and freedom from - Margaret Atwood

If freedom rings, then bondage bombs. - Anthony Liccione

Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy. - RVM

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like. - Friedrich von Hayek

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space! - Emil Cioran

Inherited Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to be!" - Gol D. Roger - Eiichiro Oda

When we stand up for what we believe in—for what’s right—there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite. - Kelseyleigh Reber

There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self. - Janet Ong Zimmerman

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein! - Milan Kundera

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. - Kevyn Aucoin

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - James A. Garfield

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity. - George W. Bush

If you celebrate Independence Day on just one day of the year, it only goes on to show that you are not truly Free…. Learn to celebrate your Freedom every day! - RVM

I have only known two men's souls in my life, one the devil, the other the the bird's wings which picked me up and carried me back to the freedom of being. - Wendy gibbins

Freedom lies in the quest for it, and ends where people have stopped asking about it. - Anonymous

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children of the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky.The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy. - Avijeet Das

Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom to not pay taxes and discriminate based on race; freedom to hold different ideas and express them, not so much. - Paul Krugman

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop. - Ludwig von Mises

That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The only freedom you truly have is in your mind, so use it. - M.T. Dismuke

I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom. - Lionel Suggs

The most empowering act we can do is to be real ,to tell the truth and to be free of anything that holds us back. That freedom unburdens our shoulders and allows us to move forward in our journey~bns - Bluenscottish

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it. - Charlotte Eriksson

Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone. - Danny Mekić

RENUNCIATION is the rightful path of the soul to true freedom, & only then Peace can follow in the life. - Deepak Chandra

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights. - A.E. Samaan

True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar. - Debasish Mridha

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling

And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I've got no claim on you now, I'm not allowed to wear you freedom down - A Fine Frenzy

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom. - Marilyn Ferguson

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

I am not interested in having freedom from burdens. I don't need any authority to free me from responsibility.I am not interested in having freedoms within an authoritarian's parameters. I am only interested in self-determination.I have only respect for liberty as I am a libertarian. - A.E. Samaan

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. - Bodhidharma

The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality. - Esther Perel

Freedom doesn't mean supporting terrorist. Freedom in democracy comes with certain responsibility. - Debasish Sinha

Discipline leads us to freedom and freedom leads us to fulfillment. - Farshad Asl

And right action is freedom from past and future also.For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. "The Dry Salvages - T.S. Eliot

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. - C. S. Lewis

His headstone saidFREE AT LAST, FREE AT LASTBut death is a slave's freedomWe seek the freedom of free menAnd the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached non-violence - Nikki Giovanni

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom. - A.E. Samaan

Freedom is the natural state, acceptance of bonds is a choice we make. We prefer to accept loss of freedom to losing something much less valuable but which we are not willing to sacrifice. - R.N. Prasher

FREEDOM IS WHERE I AM NOT A PRISONER CARRYING A BAGGAGE OF OTHERS RULES. - merlin8thomas

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom. - Marty Rubin

People hate people, not freedom. - David Foster Wallace

Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom. - Ron Serino

Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it. - John Adams

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character. - Ayn Rand

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice. - M.F. Moonzajer

If you go very deeper you will see that you are not in freedom you are in cage made by chemistry and science. - Deyth Banger

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. - Bob Dylan

It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live - not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, not understanding and freedom. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible. - Tomaž Šalamun

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. - John Adams

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. - Milton Friedman

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald MacLeish

A constant discomfort derives from this--writing these sentences, or any other for that matter--I am writing an ad for the war. With that, every utterance about freedom finishes. - Semezdin Mehmedinović

When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom. - Guatama Buddha

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison

racism it's just a hideaway for ignorant people, they are just murderer for the freedom who beat the bushes to divide and destroy..there only a black hole in their skull that leading them to nowhere..(Ejump, 2016) - Ejump Schiffler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. - Adolf Hitler

Without the freedom to be a misfit there is no freedom at all. - Marty Rubin

Confronted with such flagrant acts of intolerance—such abuses of the freedom of speech—a free society must surely do more. For intolerance is the one thing a free society cannot afford to tolerate. - Ayaan Hiri Ali

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine

More choices doesn't necessarily mean more freedom. - Marty Rubin

It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. - Amelia Boynton Robinson

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Freedom has a way of destroying things. - Scott Westerfeld

The definition of freedom is that there is no dependency. Despite having the physical body, one feels no dependency. - Dada Bhagwan

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. - Daniel Hannan

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. - Thomas Paine

Freedom of expression and freedom of the press are the very cornerstones of any democratic society. I firmly believe that it is the very right to question the status quo that allows a society to develop and prosper.

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. - Thomas Carlyle

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour. - Henry James

Welcome to where time stands stillNo one leaves and no one willMoon is full, never seems to changeJust labeled mentally derangedDream the same thing every nightI see our freedom in my sightNo locked doors, No windows barredNo things to make my brain seem scarred - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. - Krishnamurti

Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human mind has ever thought of such total freedom as established by Muhammad. - Mawde Royden

Rejecting sin is not a burden; on the contrary, it brings freedom and relief. - Sunday Adelaja

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open. - Gerald Raftery

If your freedom means immorality, the cross will cry over your freedom. - JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect. Both are supplementary to each other and must be regarded as intimately connected. Discipline and freedom are thus to be seen as elements of equal weight, each partaking of the other. - Armin Hofmann

If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. - William Lyon Phelps

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth. - Elizabeth George

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth - Abraham Lincoln