Top 100 Freedom Means Quotes
#1. If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
Jacob M. Appel
#3. 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
#4. So can you tell me exactly what 'freedom' means? If I am not free to be as twisted as I wanna be?
Disturbed
#5. Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
George Will
#6. You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
Gustav Landauer
#7. The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.
Klemens Von Metternich
#8. Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what you may.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#9. To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.
Eric Hoffer
#10. Until you have not been free, you cannot understand what freedom means.
Claire North
#11. Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
Wayne Dyer
#12. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
Milton Friedman
#13. The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and have fun.
Jamie Hewlett
#14. Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.
Eric Hoffer
#15. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#16. This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.
Ludwig Von Mises
#17. I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas ... cultures ... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
#18. The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power.
Ludwig Von Mises
#19. Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
Penn Jillette
#20. After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.
George Pataki
#21. I think freedom means freedom for everybody,
Dick Cheney
#22. If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social existence, then there is no greater fear than that of the establishment of general freedom.
Wilhelm Reich
#23. True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.
Matthieu Ricard
#24. What freedom means, is being allowed to sing in my bath as loudly as will not interfere with my neighbour's freedom to sing a different tune in his.
Tom Stoppard
#25. Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir The Demon's Daughter
Emma Holly
#26. So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
Charles Horton Cooley
#27. To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in the area of computing, freedom means not using proprietary software.
Richard Stallman
#28. Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.
Anthony Eden
#29. I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.
Lynn Barber
#30. To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James McGreevey
#31. To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
Lily Tomlin
#32. I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
Dick Cheney
#33. The fifth freedom, the Freedom of Individual Enterprise, is the keystone of the arch on which the other Four Freedoms rest. This is what freedom means.
Nicholas Murray Butler
#34. Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
Hillary Clinton
#35. Freedom means that one is responsible for one's own choices, actions, one's own life situation. Though
Irvin D. Yalom
#36. Freedom means nothing unless it means the freedom to be different
Marty Rubin
#37. Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
Amy Hill Hearth
#39. To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
Iyanla Vanzant
#40. Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
Mike Quigley
#41. Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
Rajneesh
#42. All of us are infected today with an extraordinary egoism. And that is not freedom; freedom means learning to demand only of oneself, not of life and others, and knowing how to give: sacrifice in the name of love.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#43. We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.
Sam Tanenhaus
#44. Freedom means Freedom for the Group, not Freedom for the Individual. ( ... ) Men must not be slaves to other men, but they must be slaves to their group. For, if they are not slaves to their own group, they will assuredly become slaves to some other.
Liang Qichao
#45. With respect to the question of relationships, my general view is that freedom means freedom for everyone. People ... ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to.
Dick Cheney
#46. Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
Diana DeGette
#47. Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#48. Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.
Robert H. Jackson
#49. Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.
Wendy McElroy
#50. More freedom means more jobs ... less government and less taxes.
Todd Akin
#51. Freedom means the right to assemble, organize, and debate openly. It means not taking citizens away from their loved ones and jailing them, mistreating them, or denying them their freedom or dignity because of peaceful expression of their ideas and opinions.
Hillary Clinton
#52. Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.
Lisa M
#53. The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.
George Will
#54. No one had taught us what freedom means. We'd only ever learned how to die for freedom.
Svetlana Alexievich
#55. Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#57. What good's a black face if it means I'm just someone else's property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else's load, not my own?
Stacey Lee
#58. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. If you want to lose sleep at night and eliminate all your free time or freedom, by all means open a small business, especially one that serves food.
Bill Clegg
#60. Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
Malcolm X
#61. Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
G.K. Chesterton
#62. As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.
Francois Fenelon
#63. Femininity for me means happiness and freedom ... freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
Kate Winslet
#64. Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.
Glynis Nunn
#65. If chasing a pipe dream means securing our freedom, then so be it.
Lauren Lola
#66. The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
Adam Gopnik
#67. One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
Herbie Hancock
#68. When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.
Abdellatif Kechiche
#69. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent." The
Neil Gaiman
#70. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
Nelson Mandela
#71. I'm telling Palestinians, "Don't use violence." We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.
Saeb Erekat
#72. My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
Robert Pollack
#74. Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
Ilya Kabakov
#75. Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
George Bernard Shaw
#77. The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality.
Erich Fromm
#78. With new hope.
We build new lives.
Why complain when it rains?
This is what it means to be free.
Lawson Fusao Inada
#79. That's the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.
Katherine J. Walden
#81. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
#82. The world is better shaped by freedom. Even if it means giving foolish men their head. At the heart of all things, nestled among Yggdrasil's roots, is the trick of creation that puts to shame all of Loki's deceptions. What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise. "Go
Mark Lawrence
#83. Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians
lack of power to pronounce the syllable, "No." To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
Nicolas Chamfort
#84. Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
James Bovard
#85. The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness.
Sharon E. Rainey
#86. We have to start with the little babies who are born now, socialize them in freedom and critical thinking. We don't have to throw away their faith. People confuse the two, thinking if you are enlightened that means apostasy. It doesn't.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#87. Independence means.. enjoying freedom and empowering others too to let them do so.
Vikrmn
#88. It's time to recognise the Internet as a basic human right, that means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring Internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of Web users regardless of where they live.
Tim Berners-Lee
#89. Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.
Daisaku Ikeda
#90. To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate to come to this country can't learn to love a flag that means universal freedom no matter where you come from, you can come here to try and have a better life.
Cristian Machado
#91. Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#92. What if "redemption" means not only freeing yourself from what you've done, but also from what's been done to you?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#93. Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
D.H. Lawrence
#94. Never treat any person as a means. Treat everybody as an end in himself, in herself - then you don't cling, then you are not attached. You love, but your love gives freedom - and, when you give freedom to the other, you are free. Only in freedom does your soul grow. You will feel very, very happy.
Osho
#95. There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.
Howard Zinn
#96. Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it.
Garth Greenwell
#97. The freedom to choose ... means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self.
Caroline Knapp
#98. People don't realise that to be free means to be firmly attached to a system, that discipline is the road to a higher freedom.
Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
#99. People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what they have to do, and as we get richer and richer, more and more people will be able to afford that.
Robert Fogel
#100. Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
George Orwell
