Freedom Quotes

[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.

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

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; ...

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the f...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our ...

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one ...

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

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advan...

Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the ...

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

As I went walking I saw a sign thereAnd on the sign it said "No Trespassing."But on the other side i...

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife rem...

I walked alone through the twilit street. The wind was whirling, driving, carrying me like a slip of...

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is ...

I need this wild life, this freedom.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyr...

When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

A man like this will not go where he has no will to go, will not do what he has no mind to do. Thoug...

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of ...

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which...

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to ...

If by studying Bhagavad-gītā one decides to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, he is immediately freed from all sin...

Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to pro...

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the supp...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personall...

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, an...

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, sh...

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but ...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constit...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeg...

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, ca...

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

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

E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?HC: But if it is not po...

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social j...

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of...

The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic sp...

Today I will masterbate!Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if...

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...