Top 100 Freedom Is Not Quotes
#2. We take our fetters with us; our freedom is not total: we still turn our gaze towards the things we have left behind; our imagination is full of them.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.
Kristin Armstrong
#4. Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.
Angry Zodd
#5. Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.
Ardis Whitman
#6. Freedom is not free! The Almighty offers these gifts contingent upon our willingness to turn to Him as a nation. It is a covenant relationship. That covenant is in force today, and the rules still apply.
Timothy Ballard
#7. Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.
George W. Bush
#9. Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
Ronald Reagan
#10. Freedom is not doing what you like, but liking what you do.
R.H. Blyth
#11. Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them
and then, the opportunity to choose.
C. Wright Mills
#12. Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#13. 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
#14. Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.
Os Guinness
#15. Freedom is not something we have, there is no such thing as freedom. Freedom is a quality of our personality: we are more or less free to resist pressure, more or less free to do what we want and to be ourselves. Freedom is always a question of increasing freedom one has, or decreasing it.
Erich Fromm
#17. I'm very hopeful that I'm not the only one who's willing to pick up the baton of freedom, because freedom is not free, and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for it, because we're fighting for our children and the next generation.
Ben Carson
#18. Freedom is not, then, simply the absence of restrictions, but rather consists of finding the right, liberating restrictions. Put another way, we must actively take tactical freedom losses in order to receive strategic freedom gains.
Timothy Keller
#19. I believed that 'freedom' is not a clear or sufficient answer to the question of what conservatives believe in. Like Matthew Arnold, I held that 'freedom is a very good horse to ride, but to ride somewhere'.
Roger Scruton
#20. Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
C. A. Bartol
#22. Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
Rob Bell
#23. It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#24. The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.
Leonard Read
#25. For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
Ismail Kadare
#26. The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.
Glenn Greenwald
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.
George W. Bush
#31. Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#32. We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.
Paul Gillmor
#33. Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett
#34. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
Gautama Buddha
#36. Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not yet paid the full price for freedom. And whites have not yet faced the full cost of justice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
Matthew Kelly
#39. Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
#40. Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#41. Reproductive freedom is not just the ability not to have a child through birth control. It's the ability to have one if and when you want.
Pamela Madsen
#42. Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Frances Moore Lappe
#43. Freedom is not something you have to earn. It is not something that is only available to a few. Freedom has been sealed and given to you through Jesus Christ.
Ashley Evans
#44. Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
James Baldwin
#45. The illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.
Aimee Carter
#46. Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
Kwame Nkrumah
#47. To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
Keith O'Brien
#48. Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.
James Merrill
#49. Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Guy Finley
#50. Freedom is not from the outside. It's of the inside.
John Kremer
#51. Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.
Meret Oppenheim
#52. Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
Salman Rushdie
#53. Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
Seneca The Younger
#55. Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.
Calvin Coolidge
#56. This inevitability of conflict motivates us today and echoes the reminder that freedom is not given away and our national security is not achieved without sacrifice.
Jim Walsh
#57. If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
Horace Walpole
#58. Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
Simon Wiesenthal
#59. Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.
Andrea Dworkin
#60. Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
Pope John Paul II
#62. The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.
Ludwig Von Mises
#63. Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
Kevin Powers
#64. Freedom is not so much the absence of restrictions as finding the right ones, those that fit with the realities of our own nature and those of the world.32 So the commandments of God in the Bible
Timothy Keller
#65. Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
Henry Steele Commager
#66. The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#67. Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.
Rudy Giuliani
#68. Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice ... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#69. Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
J.L. Austin
#70. Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.
Epictetus
#71. Though freedom is not a state of nature but an artifact of civilization, it did not arise from design.
Friedrich Hayek
#73. Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.
Timothy Keller
#74. Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.
Albert Camus
#75. Our democracy is of no use to those who have not been educated to it. Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
Sylvia Plath
#76. Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.
Rajneesh
#78. Freedom is not an individual effort.
Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
Sergio Aragones
#79. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
John Ringo
#82. Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
Os Guinness
#83. Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
Adlai Stevenson
#84. When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
Vaclav Havel
#85. Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Benjamin Franklin
#86. Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
John F. Kennedy
#87. Freedom is not letting your yesterday affect your today.
Joyce Meyer
#88. If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Gary Ackerman
#89. Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
P. J. O'Rourke
#90. True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
D. A. Carson
#91. Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.
Swami Vivekananda
#92. Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.
Vera Nazarian
#93. Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
#94. Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.
Paulo Freire
#95. Real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.
Suzanne La Follette
#96. Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
John F. Kennedy
#97. Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.
Zarina Bibi
#98. Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#99. Genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release. Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values. Freedom presupposes the autonomous existence of values which men wish to be free to follow and measure up to.
Robert A. Nisbet
#100. Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
