Top 100 Quotes About Freedom
#1. Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice
and therefore awareness itself
is freedom.
Geneen Roth
#2. Days of Renewal A Journey Toward Freedom Jeremy White with Chris Lujan Valley Church Press
Jeremy Davis White
#3. Freedom and order are not incompatible ... truth is strength ... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Thomas Huxley
#4. We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.
Robert M. Pirsig
#5. In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression.
Karen Armstrong
#6. In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
John Linder
#7. To allow your Spirit to manifest, you have to understand Its nature. Spirit can never be aggressive, can never dominate. It respects the freedom of another person because It's a free being.
Nirmala Srivastava
#8. The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause or hobbyhorse you wish, plus freedom to grab the mike whenever the urge takes you without any terminal repercussions.
Tina Brown
#10. An experienced designer with more freedom to act might have realised that there was just too much optimism in the Ares I concept: that a shuttle SRB was simply too small as a first stage for a rocket carrying the relatively heavy Orion spacecraft.
Henry Spencer
#11. If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.
Padraig Pearse
#12. It should not be denied ... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.
Wallace Stegner
#13. Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#14. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.
Ella Baker
#15. It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#16. What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?
Mark Twain
#17. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
Ayn Rand
#18. Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
Katherine Paterson
#19. Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant,
superbly contemptuous of all that is not
itself, and, as they very definition of passion
implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might
intimidiating power. It contains a challenge.
It contains an unspeakable hope.
James Baldwin
#20. Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
Will Durant
#21. Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
Kahlil Gibran
#22. I had the choice to either grow up and find God in the situation or become bitter. I chose to find God. And I experienced freedom like I never knew before.
Heather Mercer
#23. Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.
Miya Yamanouchi
#24. I pray the Pope Francis can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.
Marco Rubio
#25. I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
Valerie June
#26. If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin
#28. [D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.
-William F Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr.
#29. If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are.
Fennel Hudson
#30. I think I'm mostly looking forward to the college life. I'm looking forward to more freedom. Here everything is really structured and scheduled, but in college you've got to be more responsible and you can get things done on your own time. I'm really looking forward to that.
Nerlens Noel
#31. Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What
Dallas Willard
#32. Freedom ... is the act of releasing ourselves from the bondage of that which keeps us from living the life we were meant to live.
Kelli Wilson
#33. Freedom is a choice, and we have to defend our choices.
Vahid Asghari
#34. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.
Pearl Primus
#35. Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.
William Cohen
#38. Life has always been a series of the same choices: enslavement, apathy or freedom.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
Henry Steele Commager
#40. Irish people will tell you that, because of their sad history of dispossession, owning a home is not just a way to avoid paying rent but a mark of freedom. In their rush to freedom, the Irish built their own prisons. And their leaders helped them to do it.
Michael Lewis
#41. Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.
Marvin Olasky
#42. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny
Timothy Snyder
#43. Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.
Pope Francis
#44. I keep on dreaming, but to find freedom, one must first search inwards.
Fennel Hudson
#45. You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino
#46. America is not so much a country as it is an idea, and that must be why so many people are drawn to it, the idea of it, the idea that you might be free of your past, free of the traditions that kept you in your own traditions - that is the idea of it: freedom from your very own self.
Jamaica Kincaid
#47. I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
Tom Waits
#48. Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#49. We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.
Dalai Lama
#50. Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians ... lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners.
Matthew Arnold
#51. ... freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.
Olivia Manning
#52. Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.
Murray Rothbard
#53. In the midst of the most degrading circumstances imaginable, Frankl used the human endowment of self-awareness to discover a fundamental principle about the nature of man: Between stimulus and response, man has the freedom to choose.
Stephen R. Covey
#54. I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#55. I won't let others stoke fear in my heart. I choose to remain true to who I am and where my dreams direct me no matter the hardship I might incur. I remember it always: Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.
Brendon Burchard
#56. We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.
Margaret Thatcher
#57. LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
Langston Hughes
#58. 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
#59. Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
#61. In a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. Never let fear prevent you from doing right.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#62. The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.
Roy Moore
#63. We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.
Meir Soloveichik
#64. At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.
Gautama Buddha
#65. By the time Genghis Khan arrived to give his newest subjects their religious freedom, after first brutalizing them into submission, Darjmainia had developed its own very complex, partially amalgamated collection of sacred stories
Tony McMillen
#66. Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#67. It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
Eric Hoffer
#68. Freely chosen, discipline is absolute freedom.
Ron Serino
#69. It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country-and especially the rights of trade unionists-if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.
Michael Foot
#70. I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
Karen Joy Fowler
#71. Today in the west the word 'guru' has come to mean someone who leads a cult, someone who deprives others of their intellectual or spiritual freedom and rips them off financially.
Frederick Lenz
#72. In the sense of attributing to the claimant a prognostic view of his present ailments, freedom has always been of the oppressed.
Ashfaq Saraf
#73. The high office of the President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom and before I leave office, I must inform the citizens of this plight.
John F. Kennedy
#74. When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.
John Ridley
#75. I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In truth, I have no respect for any religion. I believe religion is not compatible with human rights, women's rights, or freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
#77. You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
Bayard Rustin
#78. Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Suzanne La Follette
#79. What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#80. Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of his choice ...
Joseph Leon Blau
#81. To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.
Maria Montessori
#82. To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.
Joan Miro
#83. If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.
Michele Bachmann
#84. Acting on empathy for people who are down and out requires that we have a social safety net to secure their freedom. So progressives see Social Security, welfare, and universal health care as increasing freedom. Conservatives
George Lakoff
#85. I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
Bob Marley
#86. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limited by our freedom, we are sovereign, not God. No, we are free, but God is even more free. This means that our freedom can never limit God's sovereignty.
R.C. Sproul
#87. With great freedom comes great responsibility, someone said once, well, it doesn't work the other way around.
Antoine Wilson
#88. People have the absolute right to preach and to think and to say whatever they believe, and at the same time those beliefs can't be used as the basis for denying other people their equal rights and their equal freedom.
Chris Christie
#89. If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost
#90. Trusting yourself and the source of your intelligence is the most elegant lesson of experiencing freedom and manifesting personal productivity.
David Allen
#91. Explanation. LaVey's Satan is the spirit of progress, the inspirer of all great movements that contribute to the development of civilization and the advancement of mankind. He is the spirit of revolt that leads to freedom, the embodiment of all heresies that liberate.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#92. What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?
Laura Lippman
#93. I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.
Grace Helbig
#94. Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.
Deepak Chopra
#95. The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.
Jodi Benson
#96. If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?
Jed S. Rakoff
#97. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.
C.S. Lewis
#98. A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him.
Auliq Ice
#99. But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
Rachel Griffiths
#100. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
