Freedom Quotes

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the ...

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

It's more important to be free than to be happy.

The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions ...

If every time we choose a turd, society, at a great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pep...

What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neig...

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short...

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...

Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. List...

God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga...

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...

I'm me," she whispered. "Me"Nel didn't know quite what she meant, but on the other hand she knew exa...

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, n...

When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my lifebut dancing and sexI'd go to night clubs and danceThen ...

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live wit...

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful plac...

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

I thought the same thing, exactly. We always say that. you said it--you should have refused to go to...

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joinin...

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of ...

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here,...

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitu...

There is nothing you can do that profit does not enter into, and fear of loss, and wish for power. Y...

A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the...

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your ey...

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for...

I liked to feel I had to do things perfectly; I felt I was earning my freedom. Though I was in hidin...

I don't want to be told that it's the people with power over us who are guilty, that we're innocent ...

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freed...

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it take...

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I ...

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds openin...

Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto ver...

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...

...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, ...

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already.

Go into the London Stock Exchange – a more respectable place than many a court – and you will see re...

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the...

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an is...

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how...

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

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

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my se...

All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, b...

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...

Small tyrants, threatened by big,sincerely believethey love liberty.

What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced socie...

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the c...

I began to meditate upon the writer's life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty ...

He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he ...

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.

To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe o...

Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd suppor...

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democrati...

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart...

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someo...

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind...

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to...

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are...

Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high sal...

Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, ...

Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions m...

You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than mon...

Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

The reactionary of any kind condemns sexual pleasure because it stimulates and repulses him at the s...

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of thei...

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability des...

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are swor...

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery th...

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploita...

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral ...

If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...

From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosoph...

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, o...

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom comes with the decision: it does not wait for the act.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.