Top 100 Freedom Is Quotes
#1. Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
Henri Nouwen
#2. Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Alexander Meiklejohn
#3. To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.
Keith O'Brien
#4. Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.
Chris Hedges
#5. Our Founders warned against this. They said don't ... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle
#6. Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.
Henry Giroux
#7. The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
Bertrand Russell
#8. Freedom is nothing if you don't take it with your bare hands.
Scott Keen
#9. Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?
Max Stirner
#12. When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now
Toni Morrison
#13. Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#14. Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
Georges Bidault
#15. 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
#16. Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.
Anthony M. Esolen
#17. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.
Lillian B. Rubin
#18. Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don't lose it for anything ...
Rajneesh
#19. Isn't it funny how freedom is only another word for slavery?
Lionel Suggs
#20. True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards
Dean Cavanagh
#21. Without democracy freedom is a chimera
Octavio Paz
#22. If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#23. The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
Frederick Douglass
#24. Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
Albert Einstein
#25. Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.
Etienne De La Boetie
#26. The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#27. The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.
Albert J. Nock
#28. The illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing.
Aimee Carter
#29. You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. Freedom is limited by the need to coexist.
Toba Beta
#32. 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
#33. Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.
Milton Friedman
#35. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#36. Freedom is what you can do, Liberty is what they cannot do to you.
G.H. Thomas
#37. Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
in moral truth and accountability they are.
Peter Drucker
#38. 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
#39. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
Thomas Paine
#40. Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, WE ARE ALWAYS FREE TO CHOOSE OUR THOUGHTS!
Viktor E. Frankl
#41. Freedom is a state of mind.
Unknown
#42. as Jean-Paul Sartre put it, "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." What
Eula Biss
#43. Freedom is taken for granted by the free and longed for by those who never had it. But for those who have lost it, the loss burns like the hottest flame.
S.W. Lothian
#44. But get this: you're free. Freedom is the greatest gift to the artist. Don't waste it. Go to Buenos Aires. Eat some steak. Get a fresh perspective on things.
Kapka Kassabova
#45. Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
Edith Hamilton
#46. Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
Epictetus
#47. Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
Martha Gellhorn
#48. The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.
Lauren Oliver
#49. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.
Barack Obama
#50. The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.
Travis Nichols
#52. Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.
Meljean Brook
#53. Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
Frances Moore Lappe
#54. I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.
Peter Jackson
#55. nobody loves anything more than freedom. Even love is secondary to freedom; freedom is the highest value. Love can be sacrificed for freedom, but freedom cannot be sacrificed for love.
Osho
#56. It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness.
Max Stirner
#57. We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
L. Neil Smith
#59. Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.
Bill Cunningham
#60. True freedom is a freedom with clear boundaries. True freedom understands the real essence of do's and don'ts. A freedom without restrictions that brings comfort is a freedom in chains.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#61. 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
#62. Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Epictetus
#63. Everyone longs to be free. Freedom is our essential nature, so my ultimate prayer is that the world is set free to experience the truth and the beauty of our own being.
Brandon Bays
#64. Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
#65. It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
Herbert Hoover
#66. Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country
Barack Obama
#67. Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your life
Financial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!
Choice has always been yours.
Manoj Arora
#68. The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
Rose Wilder Lane
#69. People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
Haruki Murakami
#70. All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.
Heinrich Heine
#72. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The
George Orwell
#74. What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
John Steinbeck
#75. If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
#76. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood - human blood - will win it back.
Ezra Taft Benson
#77. Every move is a creation,
Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation,
The line is a creation,
Survival is a creation,
Freedom is a creation.
Wojciech Kurtyka
#79. I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.
Ronald Reagan
#80. The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty ... The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.
Samuel Adams
#82. Be free always, because of all things, freedom is best, though it is not easily won and must be chosen by those who will enjoy it.
Alice Borchardt
#83. Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
Gautama Buddha
#84. Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his
Oswald Chambers
#85. Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.
Bhagat Singh
#86. The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
Max Eastman
#87. 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
#88. Gandhi's idea of swadeshi-that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom-is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.
Vandana Shiva
#90. Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the slave to rise, And on the oppressor's head to break the chain. Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, Till not a slave shall on this earth by found.
John Quincy Adams
#91. 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
#92. The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul.
Ernest Holmes
#93. Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
Daniel Delgado F.
#94. I came to understand that the perception that freedom is decadence is a fictitious one. Freedom is a good that is preserved and defended because it places individual responsibility at the heart of society.
Omar Saif Ghobash
#95. Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.
Elf Sternberg
#96. Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
Thomas Sowell
#97. A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.
Timothy Snyder
#98. Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.
Mira Nair
#99. Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.
Ben Stein
#100. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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