Top 100 Freedom Not Quotes
#1. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
James C. Collins
#2. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.
Jim Morrison
#3. You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.
Joe Klein
#4. We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
John McCain
#5. Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.
Karl Marx
#6. Choice isn't the same thing as freedom - not when someone else is framing the choices for you.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#7. My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.
Neale Donald Walsch
#8. I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
Robert Downey Jr.
#9. Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.
Charles Frazier
#10. A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!
Ashwin Sanghi
#11. The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
John Henry Cox
#13. The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.
Brad Paisley
#14. Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.
Dean Kamen
#15. The average bloke ... hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
#17. We have the most religious freedom of any country in the world, including the freedom not to believe.
William J. Clinton
#18. We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills.
George W. Bush
#19. Faith to me is a form of self-expression, like a work of art, a manifestation of freedom, not a tool for mindless conformity.
Sahar El-Nadi
#20. I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else's freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.
Clint Van Winkle
#21. So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.
Randy Forbes
#22. And he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
Alfred Jarry
#23. I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.
John F. Kerry
#24. Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.
Ted Strickland
#25. The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.
George Allen
#26. Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. Would you trade a long, nearly immortal life of servitude in exchange for a short one ... with me?"
I tuck in my chin, avoiding his hard stare.
"I would give up my crown if it meant finding a way to free you, Star." He releases my hand. "But you have to want that freedom. Not fear it.
Trisha Wolfe
#28. Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#29. Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.
Ayn Rand
#30. {Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.
Louisa May Alcott
#31. Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.
Rick Perlstein
#32. We will never achieve freedom - not until the very end - but the fight can be so beautiful.
Kim Fielding
#33. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
Richard M. Stallman
#34. Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one ...
Anais Nin
#36. Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
#37. The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#38. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
#39. True freedom consists not in the freedom to sin, but the freedom not to sin.
Billy Graham
#40. We need freedom, not through suffering, but through wisdom.
Nebo D. Lukovich
#41. Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#42. I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John Wayne
#43. One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount
#44. Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.
Ismail Kadare
#45. As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.
Jon Meacham
#46. Educate your children, educate yourself, in the love for the freedom of others, for only in this way will your own freedom not be a gratuitous gift from fate. You will be aware of its worth and will have the courage to defend it.
Joaquim Nabuco
#47. Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it - freedom, not reason - to pursue his plans for the future.
Thomas Ligotti
#48. I am not a critic of the West; I am a critic of the weakness of the West. I am a critic of a fact we can't comprehend: how one can lose one's spiritual strength, one's will power and possessing freedom, not value it, not be willing to make sacrifices for it.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#49. It is incumbent upon philosophy ... to provide a refuge for freedom. Not that there is any hope that it could break the political tendencies that are throttling freedom throughout the world both from within and without and whose violence permeates the very fabric of philosophical argumentation.
Theodor Adorno
#50. It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.
Tom Robbins
#51. 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
#52. I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.
James K. Glassman
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.
Grover Norquist
#56. We love our lovin' ... but not like we love our freedom.
Joni Mitchell
#57. 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
#58. Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire.
Vincent Van Gogh
#59. 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
#60. While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.
Bill Hicks
#61. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.
Jake Ducey
#62. 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
#63. Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#64. Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.
Demi Moore
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.
Julian Assange
#68. 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
#69. Those wanting to improve democracy in their countries should not wait for permission.
Bulent Ecevit
#71. 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
#72. People all know the pleasure of life but not the pain of life; they know the fatigue of old age, but not the freedom of old age; they know the horror of death but not the peace of death.
Liezi
#73. 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
#74. 137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings
#75. 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
#76. Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.
Pope John Paul II
#77. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
Ignazio Silone
#78. I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.
Oliver
#79. The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. 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
#81. The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#82. I used the aspects of being a woman to my advantage, but I worked for myself, not a big corporation, so I was lucky to have the freedom to behave however I liked.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#83. Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
Larry Flynt
#89. The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.
Tariq Ramadan
#90. 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
#91. Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
#92. Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.
Judith Martin
#93. 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
#94. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.
Ludwig Von Mises
#95. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#97. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
Nicanor Parra
#98. Every time I meet people working in radio, I'm a little embarrassed. It's all pre-programmed, rigidly formatted stuff. Time and time again, when I talk to jocks, they say how jealous they are of the freedom we have on WKRP. I sometimes have to explain to them that it's not a real radio station.
Howard Hesseman
#99. I think I had more freedom when I began making films. I did not know what could not be done. I was naive. I did what I wanted to. As you gain awareness, you start losing freedom.
Anurag Kashyap
#100. 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
