Top 100 Freedom Is Quotes
#1. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
Ron Paul
#3. Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson
#4. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
Bill McKibben
#5. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.
Kat Von D.
#6. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.
Tina Samples
#7. Think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls and growls, and strains toward freedom.
Veronica Roth
#8. It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.
Sherwood Anderson
#9. Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse; this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.
Peter Singer
#10. The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.
Phil Gramm
#11. The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?
Abhijit Naskar
#12. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#13. Easy payments, easy lease, easy approval. Debt is very EASY to get into, but makes it HARD to live victoriously.
Bradley Vinson
#14. The vision is not to see things just as we have imagined them to be. The vision is the freedom to live deliberately every day and that is a simply a choice.
Colleen Mariotti
#15. Detachment is a basic requirement for seeking enlightenment. Anyone or anything we are attached to has power to manipulate us although we all have freedom to choose.
Hina Hashmi
#16. Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
Savi Sharma
#17. Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
#18. I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
Milton Friedman
#19. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.
Marva J. Dawn
#20. The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...
Thomas Stockman
#21. I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a fight for freedom. My grandfather went to jail or exile six times in his life, fighting for his principles for democracy, or for his country. And my father twice.
George Papandreou
#22. Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#23. This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
Walter Lippmann
#24. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.
Paul Tsongas
#25. You have to make your own decisions. That's what the freedom in America is all about.
Richard Simmons
#28. Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don Marquis
#29. We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are taught to speak about freedom- war on terror and so on-falsifies freedom.
Slavoj Zizek
#30. Freedom is the kite's response to the wind.
Marty Rubin
#32. He is a true King who has the Freedom to do anything! -RVM
R.v.m.
#33. History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
Tariq Ramadan
#34. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.
Caroline Kepnes
#35. Lynching's legacy, though, is also evident today in law enforcement's freedom from accountability in the shooting of black and other youth of color, thus displaying a de facto, and often actual, legalization of white supremacist killing of black life.
Mark Lewis Taylor
#36. Mental and emotional freedom is not the denial of truth - it's the recognition that truth isn't something we need to run from or be afraid of.
T.K. Coleman
#37. When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.
Thomas Szasz
#38. If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
Jacob M. Appel
#39. The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
Tom McClintock
#40. Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran
#41. The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns the independence of the press is the capital and so to speak the constitutive element of freedom.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#42. Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
Baruch Spinoza
#43. There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
Walter Reuther
#44. Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
Paula Rego
#45. I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom ... Back then it was a lot different.
Jared Gilman
#46. The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#47. Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is.
Assata Shakur
#48. It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant search for ways to channel that rage into freedom struggle.
Pearl Cleage
#49. Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.
Horace
#50. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Robin G. Collingwood
#51. The mother of goodwill is freewill, if untainted by evil.
Christian Hunt
#52. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
Mooji
#53. Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.
William Anthony Donohue
#54. Peace is something that comes from within. It is
created by your willingness to accept yourself.
Jason Nelson
#55. It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
David Horowitz
#56. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Most writers deserve the reputation posterity has bestowed upon them: You can't for long conceal the toxic spots on your character - Philip Larkin is Exhibit A - nor can you conceal your dignity, your humanism, your regard for veracity and freedom.
William Giraldi
#58. Freedom without the means to be self-supporting is a one-armed triumph.
Michelle Cliff
#59. True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.
Larry Wall
#60. It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#61. Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
Eraldo Banovac
#62. Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.
Vishwas Chavan
#63. What is most important is the deeply felt conviction that freedom is like oxygen, and I hope The Long Walk is a reminder that when lost, freedom is difficult to regain.
Slavomir Rawicz
#64. Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Roger Scruton
#66. Freedom of will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.
C. G. Jung
#67. What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
G.K. Chesterton
#68. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#69. My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: "These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best."
Ronald Reagan
#70. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
John N. Gray
#71. It is necessary to curb the power of government. This is the task of all constitutions, bills of rights and laws. This is the meaning of all struggles which men have fought for liberty.
Ludwig Von Mises
#72. it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything.
Vincent Cheung
#73. The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
Henry Charles Carey
#74. A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.
Eric Foner
#75. Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
#76. 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
#78. If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
[Freedom of the Park, Tribune, 7 December 1945]
George Orwell
#79. I hope you'll understand that I am not quoting those great words lightly. I do mean it. Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#80. The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
Robert A. Heinlein
#81. Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
#82. The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.
Ashly Lorenzana
#83. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.
Thomas Jefferson
#85. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
Nicanor Parra
#86. You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
Madeleine L'Engle
#87. Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with ... Stop trying to steer the river.
Deepak Chopra
#88. The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Michael Korda
#89. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney
#90. ...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.
Romain Gary
#91. The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...
Bipan Chandra
#92. Well sir, if slavery is freedom then I'm glad I don't have to make a meal of it. Whips and chains are not much to my taste.
Amitav Ghosh
#93. Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting.
Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
Cheri Huber
#94. Amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.
Atul Gawande
#95. Love is about having the freedom to be you and allowing each other the freedom to be who they are while being committed.
Sharon Law Tucker
#96. The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
Sitting Bull
#97. Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
Dalai Lama
#98. Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.
Zarina Bibi
#99. Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.
Michel Templet
#100. The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
Frederic Bastiat
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