Top 100 Freedom Freedom Of Expression Quotes
#1. To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.
Peter M. Brant
#2. Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.
Virginia Woolf
#3. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#4. New York has always been a sense of eclectic kind of freedom and expression on a lot of different levels.
Sandra Bernhard
#5. I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target ... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.
John Perry Barlow
#6. I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.
Carsten Juste
#7. The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
#8. We're not mindless golems, designed to think exactly the same thing. To try to suppress those thoughts is no better than slavery, and being free to say what you want, write what you want or draw what you want, as long as it doesn't offend anyone... That's no freedom at all.
T.J. Dixon
#9. Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.
Neil Young
#10. A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.
Edward Sapir
#11. With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.
Noam Chomsky
#12. A bunch of bong-smoking, America-bashing, flag-burning, yoga-posing, incense-burning, dolphin-saving, salmon-eating hypocrites. These are the sensitive, liberal people who are always yelling about people's freedom of speech and expression, unless you happen to say something that pisses them off.
Richard Jeni
#14. It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.
Florence Welch
#15. Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
Benjamin Cardozo
#16. Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
Alvin Toffler
#17. I know the difference between reality and fantasy. Those with sick fantasies who know and respect this difference are much less dangerous than those with no fantasies at all, but who can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.
T.J. Dixon
#18. Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.
Tim Fargo
#19. Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.
Pope Francis
#20. when you disobey the rule, you sell your freedom. You cripple your real you. The daily direction of your life is restricted and directed by the rule and the ruling
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.
Lord Hailsham
#22. The dictator says "You are allowed to think as you want" but never write it down or talk about it. If you cross these borders we cannot guarantee your security
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#23. I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
Alan Bennett
#24. And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.
Tom Lehrer
#25. I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.
Robert Battle
#26. To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian
#27. Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.
Anjem Choudary
#28. On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.
Andrea Dworkin
#29. We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#30. Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
Marty Rubin
#31. There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#32. Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
#33. Because Freedom is the most important thing on life, let me Be.
John Steinbeck
#34. One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
Howard Zinn
#35. Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.
Liao Yiwu
#36. You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be against all of it.
Scott Howard Phillips
#37. I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.
Kurt Cobain
#38. The assumption that we are infallible can we justify the suppression of opinions we think false. Ages are as fallible as individuals, every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd.
John Stuart Mill
#39. To live your life without oppression, making love the way you wish, loving those you wish to be with - is to live on the right of the spectrum.
Auliq Ice
#40. It is necessary to ensure that the requirement to combat terrorism is not used to clamp down on freedom of expression, legitimate dissent, freedom of association and so on.
Mary Robinson
#41. The universe isn't neutral, it has a plan, it has a pattern, a big idea that is seeking willing places for its ever expanding expression; and the good news is that it is always conspiring for your freedom. No matter how it may appear.
Derek Rydall
#42. See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!
Bill Hicks
#43. If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it's a human need.
Ai Weiwei
#44. If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky
#45. Please wake me when I'm free
I cannot bear captivity
4 I would rather be stricken blind
Than 2 live without expression of mind
Tupac Shakur
#46. The use of "religion" as an excuse to repress the freedom of expression and to deny human rights is not confined to any country or time.
Margaret Atwood
#47. Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
Salman Rushdie
#49. Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or under dangers which are hazarded only by heroes.
Felix Frankfurter
#50. History had singled out the United States to play a unique role as the chief instrument for securing the advance of freedom, which found its highest expression in democratic capitalism.
Andrew J. Bacevich
#51. Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.
Tiffany Madison
#52. Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
Liu Xiaobo
#53. I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Mick Jagger
#54. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
Abe Fortas
#55. Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.
Naguib Mahfouz
#56. Some find freedom in comfort
others find comfort in freedom
Mie Hansson
#57. Fashion is a lifestyle, it's a choice,it's a freedom of expression.You have to live it, you have to love it. You have to breathe it. Life's all about love and glamour.
Christina Aguilera
#58. I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
Henry A. Kissinger
#60. I believe in the freedom of expression, unequivocally - though, as I have written before, I wish more people would understand that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequence.
Roxane Gay
#61. For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.
Robert Redford
#62. I will follow anyone ... and invite everyone ... too unite and defend the freedom of expression.
Widad Akreyi
#63. No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
Naguib Mahfouz
#64. 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
#65. Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#67. In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.
Keith O'Brien
#68. The freedom of personal expression, ideas and imagination, working in collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds - is what's needed to spawn creativity.
Larry R. Thompson
#69. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.
Dinesh D'Souza
#70. Freedom is all I want.
Nashi
#71. Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein
#72. None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#73. I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
Amy Tan
#74. Not enough people know or understand just how little freedom we have left.
Korban Blake
#76. The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
Ma Jian
#77. Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing.
Auliq Ice
#78. We also have no taboos against freedom of expression. Although I am president, I must confront the criticism of party members in my election district once every three months. In addition, people pay close attention to what my wife does and how my children live.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#79. When the human condition is finally demystified, human insecurity and nervousness will be at a maximum ... for this ultimate enlightenment to be allowed, society is going to have to adhere scrupulously to the democratic principle of freedom of expression.
Jeremy Griffith
#80. The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.
Esther Perel
#81. Every one has the right to refute any opinion. But no one has the right to prevent its expression.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#82. Our spirit requires freedom in every area of our lives. The barriers that stop our soul from free expression are doubt, guilt, resentment, and thoughts of lack or limitation.
Hina Hashmi
#83. I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
Jalal Talabani
#85. What is the best thing that happens if we refuse to abide by the dictates of political correctness? I believe that we could return to a nation that truly cherishes freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Ben Carson
#86. Once I stopped worrying about what people would think when they heard my truth, my truth set me free.
Deborah J. Monroe
#87. What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.
Gwendoline Christie
#88. The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.
Rafael K Nunes
#89. To work best democracy needs a diversity of thoughts, ideas and expression. This is only possible with freedom and civility.
Kevin Stirtz
#90. The dark net is a world of power and freedom: of expression, of creativity, of information, of ideas. Power and freedom endow our creative and our destructive faculties. The dark net magnifies both, making it easier to explore every desire, to act on every dark impulse, to indulge every neurosis.
Jamie Bartlett
#91. Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.
Mervyn Levy
#92. Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
Wadah Khanfar
#93. People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
Agnes Chan
#94. In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein
#95. Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
James Q. Wilson
#96. Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you become a stranger to yourself.
Lucien Bourjeily
#97. When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman to be his running mate in the 2000 presidential campaign, Eszterhas wrote "Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression."
David Shuster
#98. Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
Larry Flynt
#99. I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.
Jimmy Wales
#100. When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood. Jazz is the expression of harmony ... and at the same time of hope and freedom.
Herbie Hancock
