Freedom Quotes

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicabl...

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of acade...

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom ...

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give...

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? I...

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...

Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the fu...

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all othe...

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness f...

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a bel...

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its ...

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. On...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from ...

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

Liberties aren't given, they are taken.

What would it be like if I were free, not enslaved by my conditioning?

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquest...

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...

It must be something voluntary, something self induced - like getting drunk, or talking yourself int...

I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compr...

This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little worl...

Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have litt...

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely f...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

Freedom meant one thing to him—home.But they wouldn't let him go home.

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at ...

Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art—and by art I m...

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people disco...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibac...

The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the ma...

These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: … the men in Kentucky [neither] ...

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste...

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in fre...

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion...

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health car...

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the sur...

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but li...

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by thei...

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and eve...

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled b...

It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acu...

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to ...

The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom o...

Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

Kindness has no boundaries. It is the language of the soul.

He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at a...

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...

The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was t...

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. Yo...

It is not in becoming a whore that a woman becomes an outlaw in this man's world; it is in the posse...

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force ...

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Havi...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who lov...

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec l...

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under ...

A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I fee...

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Without love, I'm more at ease, I'm sure. The sky is high, the mountain wind is sweeping, And all my...

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man ...

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful...

But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind ...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be...

If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting,...

Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objecti...