We have collected the best Freedom Quotes by famous authors including John F. Kennedy, Peter Shaffer, Pope Benedict XVI, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Albert Camus and many others, we hope that among them you will find the right thought.
The best road to progress is freedom’s road.
John F. Kennedy
I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.
Peter Shaffer
How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!
Pope Benedict XVI
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that’s what I want.
Penn Jillette
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
There are two freedoms – the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Bayard Rustin
I need freedom to be happy.
Johnny Weissmuller
Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one’s life – or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one’s growth.
Rollo May
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
Sabine Baring-Gould
I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
Johnny Depp
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
Zygmunt Bauman
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.
Gerald Edelman
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn’t have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don’t, and either way, it doesn’t matter.
Marcia Clark
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Stanley Kubrick
On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that – from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
Laurence Fishburne
Family ownership provides the independence that is sometimes required to withstand governmental pressure and preserve freedom of the press.
Katharine Graham
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.
Timothy D. Snyder
I personally like hard forks. Particularly, I like the fact that they give users a measure of control, requiring them to opt in to protocol changes. Sure, they can be a little more chaotic if they’re controversial, but that’s the price of freedom.
Vitalik Buterin
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
Shashi Tharoor
Three simple words – freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
Charles Kennedy
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
John Dalberg-Acton
Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Haruki Murakami
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
Jacques Prevert
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
William Inge
Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Rollo May
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. Bush
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America’s servicemen and women.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emil Cioran
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald Reagan
I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
Daniel Boulud
To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you’re sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back – it’s a very humbling feeling.
Brian Banks
Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
Molly Ivins
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be.
Johnny Depp
Old Glory represents our great American military and their sacrifices to ensure our freedom. This isn’t a political issue. This is about Patriotism, and we need more of it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We are all different. Yet we are all God’s children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
Barbara Boxer
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Martha Beck
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
Divyanka Tripathi
With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.
Kylie Minogue
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love – it’s a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don’t expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
Carole King
I went to high schools in four different countries. The gift is that you can constantly reinvent yourself. I still feel that freedom. One day, I’ll wear a dress I got in India; the next, Converse sneakers and jeans.
Hannah Simone
Art, it seems to me, doesn’t need freedom so much as it needs courage and love – some would call it ‘soul’ or ‘Eros.’
Michael Leunig
The sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.
Joshua Wong
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
Alan Dershowitz
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt Vonnegut
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
Hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W. Bush
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell
I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Paulo Coelho
There is no ageism or ‘youthism’ when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
Jacques Parizeau
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.
William Hague
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
Damien Rice
My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness – not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit – wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.
Tullian Tchividjian
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
Milos Forman
Every woman needs a private pin money stash. That is her own personal stash of cash to do with whatever she wants. It gives a woman freedom even if she doesn’t spend it – especially if she doesn’t spend it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Kailash Satyarthi
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser
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
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
Jonathan Kozol
Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women’s economic freedom.
Gloria Steinem
What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.
Viktor Orban
Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It’s freedom.
Andrea Bocelli
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson
I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.
George Foreman
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character, to be altogether one’s self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
Corliss Lamont
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Grace Kelly
We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.
George Allen
I want to thank the WBC and its president, Don Jose Sulaiman, for the support in our fight for democracy and freedom in Ukraine.
Vitali Klitschko
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai Stevenson I
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
Emma Watson
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.
Joseph Prince
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Aldous Huxley
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom ‘to’ and freedom ‘from.’
Marilyn vos Savant
I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
Clearly the success of the Netflix model, releasing the entire season of ‘House of Cards’ at once, proved one thing: The audience wants the control. They want the freedom. If they want to binge as they’ve been doing on ‘House of Cards’ and lots of other shows, we should let them binge.
Kevin Spacey
Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.
Omar al-Bashir
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
John Stuart Mill
There are days when solitude 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.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson
I’m not going to fearmonger to win an election. I’m going to focus on the positive opportunities we have for a bright future for all of our families, where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive.
Stacey Abrams
To be truly free, you should be ready to risk everything for freedom.
Pavel Durov
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We thought we’d leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can’t leave this and become free, because these people don’t understand what freedom is.
Svetlana Alexievich
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma Gandhi
The freedom you feel when you’re actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
Kate Bush
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.
Jonathan Sacks
Freedom without rules doesn’t work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Judith Martin
Anytime the coach gives you the ball and some encouragement, you get a sense of freedom.
B. J. Armstrong
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Lyn Nofziger
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That’s not freedom.
Viktor Orban
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
David Bowie
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.
Ernestine Rose
America is the only nation in the world based on an idea – freedom and self-government – so if we don’t understand that idea and what sacrifices were made to win that freedom and keep it for over two centuries, how can we possibly continue to keep it?
Eric Metaxas
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
Creative freedom is a huge carrot.
Adam McKay
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
There’s parts of it that I connect to – being a father and everything – but ‘Mamma Mia!’ allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I’ve never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.
Aaron Lazar
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
Jose Rizal
What I don’t want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point out all the time. Remember, bad guys aren’t stupid, they’re just bad.
Jim Jordan
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me – and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.
Blake Shelton
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
Herbert Hoover
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov
Education is freedom.
Paulo Freire
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman
Being pregnant is a conundrum. You have this freedom, because it’s a wonderful time that a human being is growing inside of you, and it is truly magical. On the other hand, your body changes.
Anna Gunn
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Angela Davis
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
Allen West
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.
David Choe
The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Martin Puryear
Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.
Lawrence Kudlow
It would have been disastrous for Zambia if we had gone multi-party because these parties would have been used by those opposed to Zambia’s participation in the freedom struggle.
Kenneth Kaunda
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
As Canadians who proudly demand the equal treatment of minorities, religious freedom, gender equality and basic human rights for its citizens – allowing our political leaders to shamefully ignore these values in the name of business abroad, falls short of the high standard we rightfully set for ourselves.
Jagmeet Singh
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
John Milton
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene
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
It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.
Leo McKern
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
Georg Buchner
It’s always been something I’ve been searching for – freedom. It’s a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
Alvin Lee
Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.
Victor Pinchuk
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
Shel Silverstein
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
Podcasting is great. Total freedom.
Bill Burr
Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I’m learning the value of saying no. That’s very important.
Willie Nelson
Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert Kiyosaki
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person’s worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother’s values – these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
Jenny Zhang
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
David Suzuki
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
Rudy Giuliani
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 our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.
Joshua Wong
The Internet’s distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate – the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously.
Jonathan Zittrain
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
Jonathan Sacks
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom – let’s keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs.
Lauren Boebert
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
Matt Mullenweg
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Samuel Adams
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Friedrich Engels
My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.
Taya Kyle
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It’s kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It’s a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
Alan Rickman
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai Stevenson I
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Lech Walesa
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O. Douglas
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
My father always said, ‘Malala will be free as a bird.’
Malala Yousafzai
I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want.
Paul Walker
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players… they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
Arsene Wenger
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
Morning Star
It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
Judith Butler
I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn’t do. But it seems to me that isn’t our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.
Alice Paul
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It’s the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom.
Johnny Depp
They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
Louis Farrakhan
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
Vladimir Lenin
Growth and progress depend on more economic freedom.
Maxime Bernier
We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.
Mohammed Morsi
We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.
George W. Bush
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don’t judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna Ciccone
We’re giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
Glenn Beck
The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
Arlen Specter
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
Margaret Walker
Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won’t. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, ‘Oh look at that – why doesn’t he get a job?’ While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.
Neil Peart
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‘freedom’ means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
Afrika Bambaataa
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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 of them.
Mark Twain
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi
Our work is a scream of freedom.
Christo
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Herodotus
Freedom is never granted; it is won.
A. Philip Randolph
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Herbie Hancock
I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Arundhati Roy
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I went to jail 44 times. I’ve been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom… Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Ralph Abernathy
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill Gates
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
Andrew Goodman
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
Kate Adie
Rock n’ roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
Noel Gallagher
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There’s something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.
Sterling K. Brown
Psychoanalysis – and any good therapy – is a method of increasing one’s awareness of destiny in order to increase one’s experience of freedom.
Rollo May
After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means – and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
George Pataki
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.
Jocko Willink
People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.
Jordan Peterson
Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
Linda Evans
Freedom is control in your own life.
Willie Nelson
The issue of coverage of pre-poll surveys should not be mixed with the freedom of press. Having guidelines does not violate any fundamental right nor implies any restriction on this freedom. ‘Media power’ should not be misused with the help of pre-poll surveys.
N. Bhaskara Rao
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
Donald Tusk
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
If you’re not ready to die for it, put the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X
Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.
Ksenia Sobchak
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
I absolutely support President Trump 100 percent, and he inspired me to run. I got frustrated throughout his presidency watching Big Tech censor conservatives, so I’ll be fighting back on that, because everyone has the freedom of speech.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
I’ve had a lot of ‘aha’ moments, but the big ‘aha’ about growing older is the mental freedom.
Isabella Rossellini
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
Max Walker
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood – human blood – will win it back.
Ezra Taft Benson
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech – and the freedom of dreaming, really.
Petra Nemcova
There’s fear or faith. If you’re living by fear, then you’re always looking for security. If you’re living by faith, then you’re always looking for freedom.
William Hurt
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny – and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
Robert Kennedy
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
David Sarnoff
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
Georg Cantor
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
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.
Soren Kierkegaard
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
Vita Sackville-West
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
Elbert Hubbard
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‘This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.’ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.
Ronald Reagan
I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security.
Bill Owens
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn’t want to go to the office every morning.
Marcel Duchamp
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
Henri Bergson
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin
Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
Brigham Young
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Molly Ivins
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
John Dalberg-Acton
Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
I could live without my phone. And one thing I’d love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the ’80s.
Millie Bobby Brown
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
Chuck Palahniuk
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre
Let us ask ourselves, ‘What kind of people do we think we are?’ And let us answer, ‘Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.’
Ronald Reagan
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Suzanne Collins
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Friedrich August von Hayek
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Emil Cioran
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
Moon Jae-in
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
Mike Fitzpatrick
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Amy Tan
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Freedom is like that. It’s like air. When you have it, you don’t notice it.
Boris Yeltsin
Our focus remains on delivering the promise of WhatsApp far and wide so that people around the world have the freedom to speak their mind without fear.
Jan Koum
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
Molly Ivins
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
Kenneth Branagh
Freedom is such a gift.
Ryan Gosling
You’re always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.
Bernadine Dohrn
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan
America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.
John Updike
Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
David Starkey
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
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
Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built. Any restriction of freedom of speech is a restriction upon democracy.
Deeyah Khan
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity – seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don’t let them in?
Mandy Patinkin
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Ernest Renan
As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.
Marcel Proust
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work – our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
America, to me, is freedom.
Willie Nelson
They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.
Audie Murphy
Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.
Kangana Ran
aut
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
Vaclav Havel
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
Drew Houston
There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Ron Paul
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Warren E. Burger
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
Maya Lin
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.
Nelson Mandela
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
Ryan Holiday
Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
John Lewis
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Perhaps I am naive, but I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
Edward Snowden
We can’t change the past but we can learn from history and remember the important things – the sacrifices our loved ones made, and the price of our freedom today.
Vera Lynn
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.
Andrew Young
Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn’t want to have a child. I knew I didn’t want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I’m around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres
Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
Najib Mikati
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people in addition to what their natural yearnings were.
Rush Limbaugh
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.
Rollo May
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh… We are finding our way out from under the debris of the ‘Red Empire’ slowly and tentatively.
Svetlana Alexievich
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Felix Frankfurter
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy
Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It’s not just about us, it’s not just about me, it’s not just about Rappler. Press freedom is… the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.
Maria Ressa
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin
Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
Sylvia Plath
While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
Jocko Willink
Freedom has a price. Most people aren’t willing to pay it.
Jack Kevorkian
Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain
The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.
Mike Fitzpatrick
Freedom lies in being bold.
Robert Frost
A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It’s for people who are curious, who have inner energy – the energy of life and living.
Issey Miyake
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.
Salman Rushdie
Freedom meant for me to wear earrings, not freedom of speech.
Park Yeon-mi
Too much freedom can lead to the soul’s decay.
Prince
There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.
Ricardo Montalban
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I’m competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don’t know how to cherish the freedom we have until it’s taken from us.
Alek Wek
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.
Brian Armstrong
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
Mike Crapo
Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
Kristin Armstrong
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Pankaj Mishra
I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.
Johnny Depp
This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age – a Golden Age – of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
Joe Lieberman
Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The best thing about being rich is the freedom; freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn’t suck.
Tommy Lee
Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.
John Ralston Saul
I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person – not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom – to be accepted as me.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.
Kailash Satyarthi
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.
John Adams
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt
I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I’m too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It’s called freedom.
Robert H. Schuller
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal… I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless
Conformity is painful. You know, it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
Thomas Jane
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
Jean-Paul Marat
In communism, we never had any freedom – of movement, of speech, of press. We didn’t even make own decisions for our lives, our future. We were human robots.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
Kailash Satyarthi
The Arab Spring is a true phenomenon. Embrace Arab Spring; embrace the aspiration for freedom of the people of Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
Jamal Khashoggi
I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
Fred Ward
The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.
Elizabeth Dole
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, ‘Hey, come back over here, reconnect.’ The only way that you’ll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
Tara Brach
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
Martin Amis
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Walter Koenig
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house.
James Otis
The United States is now harbouring Luis Posada Carriles. His continued freedom mocks victims of terrorism everywhere. It also shows how heavily the ‘war on terror’ is overlaid with politics and hypocrisy.
Stephen Kinzer
I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
John Thune
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
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
Ingrid Newkirk
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
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
Gianni Versace
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
A. Philip Randolph
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper – but in practice, too many break their pledge.
Ban Ki-moon
I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What’s appealing is that you don’t have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.
Jane Campion
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell
What light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.
Mona Eltahawy
Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.
Doug Baldwin
When government – in pursuit of good intentions – tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
Milton Friedman
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Kashmiri people are fighting the war for freedom. And India cannot stop this freedom movement through atrocities, as Kashmir dispute is a problem of humanity, human rights, and freedom.
Shehbaz Sharif
The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.
Fannie Lou Hamer
It’s very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
Bernard Arnault
All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.
Akiva ben Joseph
Freedom is a part of protest as well.
Andrew Whitworth
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it’s free as in freedom.
Richard Stallman
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.
Peace Pilgrim
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
Nicholas Soames
No man is good enough to be another’s master.
William Morris
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abraham Lincoln
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Bill O’Reilly
137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
Nawal El Saadawi
Whether it’s freedom to express, freedom to live, freedom to earn, freedom to thrive, freedom to learn, whatever it is, I want to make sure that I’m a part of these spaces and opening doors.
Angela Rye
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
John F. Kennedy
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.
Robert Jackson
Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.
Scott Morrison
Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
Nancy Pelosi
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.
Jon Landau
I have great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country. I have family, I have friends that have gone and fought for this country. And they fight for freedom, they fight for the people, they fight for liberty and justice, for everyone.
Colin Kaepernick
Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley
I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison
We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.
Ann Widdecombe
I can’t work in a domestic kitchen; it’s just too confined. There’s no freedom, and there’s no buzz.
Marco Pierre White
By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives – you can’t say, think, or do this or that.
Jill McCorkle
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
Sheryl Crow
Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
Patrisse Cullors
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun
To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry
Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
Rand Paul
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
Billy Graham
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
Rebecca MacKinnon
We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.
George H. W. Bush
Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.
Gao Xingjian
The flag is a symbol of our freedom, and burning it absolutely is one of the least patriotic things that a person could possibly do. I say ‘one of the least’ because I can think of a few things that would actually be less so – and, as a matter of fact, I think that banning flag-burning would absolutely be on that list.
Kat Timpf
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
Lech Walesa
Freedom is relative.
Billy Graham
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller
Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition – they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It’s not only the star system. It’s a symbol of freedom.
Rithy Panh
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech.
Judith Butler
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
Mikhail Bakunin
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison
Everyone has his or her own opinion and I always welcome criticism. That’s why we have freedom of expression and that’s also what I stand for – but I won’t stand for insults.
Ilkay Gundogan
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin
Not all paintings are abstract; they’re not all Jackson Pollock. There’s value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
Aaron Sorkin
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
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom – these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man’s attitude may be, that problem is hers – and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
Margaret Sanger
To the nameless and unsung heroes of our freedom struggle, we offer our humble tribute. Their life-blood nourishes the body of independent India.
Rajiv Gandhi
The work of art is a scream of freedom.
Christo
Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination – these must become standard global operating conditions.
Paul Polman
Without any action, this migratory influx will be like the barbarian invasion of the 4th century, and the consequences will be the same. We must immediately stop this madness to safeguard our social pact, freedom, and identity.
Marine Le Pen
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary software does not allow users to have control of their computing.
Richard Stallman
I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Irvine Welsh
Here’s a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.
Ben Carson
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
Jose Rizal
Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.
David Ogilvy
In the drag community it’s mostly women in the audience, even for burlesque. I think people look at strippping as a male gaze thing and I think the actual neo-classical burlesque community is more about women supporting women and their creativity, along with freedom of expression.
Violet Chachki
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own – we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture
I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.
Dutee Chand
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert Foster Bennett
Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.
Friedrich Ebert
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Marcus Garvey
Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
Coretta Scott King
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
Dada Vaswani
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
Friedrich August von Hayek
The only certain freedom’s in departure.
Robert Frost
The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
Ted Cruz
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
Ellen Willis
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won’t have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.
Jazz Jennings
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Lady Bird Johnson
For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people’s revolution with but one aim in view – the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
Sun Yat-sen
Freedom is not enough.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
Felix Adler
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman
The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win.
Molly Ivins
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan
We have religious freedom – which is important. But we want everyone in our country to respect our laws, and our laws on Islam say it is not acceptable to have influence abroad on the Muslim community in Austria, and it is not acceptable that Islamic organizations or imams are financed from abroad.
Sebastian Kurz
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Vernon Howard
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
Ramakrishna
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno
Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.
Jocko Willink
We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.
John Henrik Clarke
The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.
Ferdinand Marcos
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
Tommy Franks
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Alan Dean Foster
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
Ron Paul
Going braless is one’s freedom.
Sulli
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
Jim Morrison
You don’t have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
Don Lemon
I discovered freedom for the first time in England.
Hirohito
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Allen West
Freedom has never been free.
Medgar Evers
My attitude is govern as if you’ve run your last race. That’s not to say I’ve run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
Rahm Emanuel
We don’t believe that winning elections and winning any amount of votes will win freedom in Ireland. At the end of the day, it will be the cutting edge of the IRA which will bring freedom.
Martin McGuinness
Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men’s lives.
Robert Kennedy
In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
J. G. Ballard
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Desmond Tutu
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom… No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
Christopher McCandless
We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
David O. McKay
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
Dan Lipinski
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
Charles Lindbergh
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Pythagoras
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton
Freedom is contagious. That’s why despots fear it so much.
Bill Owens
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
Whittaker Chambers
‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
Mortimer Adler
As a young teen, Satan and the idea of some sort of world that you could be in touch with that could empower you was very much the symbol for freedom.
Tobias Forge
Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.
Peter Hitchens
The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
bell hooks
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.
Henry Giroux
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus
History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.
Tim Pawlenty
Books that distribute things… with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
Marsilio Ficino
Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity and credibility. Paid news and the declining roles of the editors and their editorial freedom is posing a major threat to the Indian media.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
The true exercise of freedom is – cannily and wisely and with grace – to move inside what space confines – and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A. S. Byatt
Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.
Maria Ressa
I believe in pan-Africanism. This means that in many things – the judiciary, sports, economics and trade – we want Africanism to be involved, which is basically more freedom for the people.
Fela Kuti
I always wanted to make ‘Freedom,’ but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.
Vivek Agnihotri
There is nothing wrong with intellectual differences flowing from freedom of thought as long as such differences remain confined to intellectual debates.
Pervez Musharraf
There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela
The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree.
Thomas Campbell
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
Sam Brownback
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Trent Lott
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
Mstislav Rostropovich
The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.
Rajiv Gandhi
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Richard Lovelace
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Sidney Hook
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
Rachel Corrie
Our two nations share the important values of democracy and freedom and liberty. My visit to the United States has indeed reinforced this mutual conviction and determination to ensure that our two peoples cherish these values.
Mwai Kibaki
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James McGreevey
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
Ismail Kadare
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Albert Camus
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
I can live without bread, but I can’t live without freedom.
Said Nursi
I don’t believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there’s one thing that’s dangerous for an artist, it’s precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
Federico Fellini
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke
Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.
Garrett Hardin
They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
Bobby Sands
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.
Corazon Aquino
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.
Clarence Darrow
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Hoover
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.
DeRay Mckesson
Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations to collectively guarantee our freedom and security much more difficult.
Frans Timmermans
What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.
Rachel Campos-Duffy
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
Pauline Hanson
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
Desmond Tutu
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson
Once people enjoy the taste of freedom, there is no turning back.
Neil Bush
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert Spencer
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.
Shaun King
Coercion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.
Robert McNamara
My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one’s purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one’s self.
Coretta Scott King
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.
David Cameron
When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.
Sun Yat-sen
Murakami’s ability to deconstruct and his aesthetic and conceptual freedom have been totally inspiring for me.
Virgil Abloh
Freedom is the right to one’s dignity as a man.
Archibald MacLeish
Freedom isn’t to do what you want at somebody else’s expense.
John Lydon
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
Nelson Mandela
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
Theodor W. Adorno
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton
I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
Dick Cheney
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the ‘freedom of the press’ goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
Alan Dershowitz
Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.
Aung San Suu Kyi
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
Dan Quayle
