Top 100 Quotes About Personal Freedom
#1. The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#2. I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility.
Laura Owens
#3. There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us
these are just the hazards of being free.
David Foster Wallace
#4. Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Karel Capek
#5. I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
Martin Sheen
#6. Giving a voice to your feelings is a necessary personal freedom.
Deborah Sandella
#7. Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.
Thomas Piketty
#8. If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
Margaret Atwood
#9. Many people strive for personal freedom throughout their adult lives, and never attain it. First, they become imprisoned a good portion of their lives by their jobs. Then, after they leave the work force, they become imprisoned by retirement.
Ernie J Zelinski
#10. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.
Richard Ebeling
#11. And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
Don Nickles
#12. Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back.
Sheila Burke
#13. The sovereign way to personal freedom is to help determine the forces that determine you.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#14. The degree of Spiritual growth is directly proportionate to the degree of personal freedom; your very own individuality.
Gian Kumar
#15. In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.
Anthony Daniels
#16. Personal freedom and interpersonal relationships in marriage are positive aspects of growth in marriage. At the same time they can pose a serious danger in family harmony and degradation of some of the fundamental values if carried too far.
Anonymous
#17. How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
Roger Stone
#18. Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
#19. If one wanted to find a modern symbol of personal freedom, the motor car is right there near the top of the list. But a car has come to mean much more than that. It has become a powerful statement about who you are and how much you earn.
Martin Jacques
#20. Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#21. Impeccability of the word can lead you to personal freedom, to huge success and abundance; it can take away all fear and transform it into joy and love.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#22. Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Don DeLillo
#23. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
Charlton Heston
#24. A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom ... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
Neal Boortz
#25. We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#26. Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
James Q. Wilson
#27. Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
James Bryce
#28. He proposes, as a final solution to the question, the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One-tenth is to receive personal freedom and unlimited rights over the remaining nine-tenths.6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
Max Stirner
#30. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps
William J. Clinton
#31. But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.
Paolo Gentiloni
#32. Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
Daniel Greenberg
#33. The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Adolf Hitler
#35. We all have struggle in our lives. We're all searching for personal freedom, whether we're in a bad place or trying to be true to ourselves.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#36. A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
Robin S. Sharma
#37. The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.
Rollo May
#38. It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.
Bill Hicks
#39. Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.
Newton Lee
#40. Movement is the universal language of personal freedom.
Louis Chevrolet
#41. My personal freedom, confirmed by the liberty of all, extends to infinity.
Mikhail Bakunin
#42. Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.
Rollo May
#43. I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.
Rose Wilder Lane
#44. I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
Rick Scott
#45. Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.
Karl Marx
#46. So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me.
Sheena Iyengar
#47. 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
#48. My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
Lance Loud
#49. Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.
Frank Zappa
#50. Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#51. The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
Rose Wilder Lane
#52. As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was. In any case, that democracy will not mean increased personal freedom.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
#53. Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
Hideki Tojo
#54. Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.
John Longenecker
#55. The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
Christopher Dawson
#56. I expect the notions of personal freedom and representative government would appear radical to a slave of the corporate world." "A
Anthony Ryan
#57. It really was truth or consequences, and Billy went with truth. It was just incredible." Forsaking public prominence, Strayhorn found personal freedom in service to the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Now there might not be a Billy Strayhorn Orchestra. But there was a Billy Strayhorn.
David Hajdu
#58. It is the main motivation of humankind to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction - to experience what may be called Personal Freedom.
Brendon Burchard
#59. Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom.
Deepak Burfiwala
#60. Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.
Milton Friedman
#61. The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.
Pope John Paul II
#62. For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
Ismail Kadare
#63. The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them
but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#64. I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.
Lionel Sosa
#65. I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
Lee Kuan Yew
#66. That un-American institution, the trades union, has developed its un-American principle of curtailing or abolishing the personal freedom of the individual in a new direction, that of seeking, as far as possible, to cripple the World's Fair.
Erik Larson
#67. Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.
Willie Nelson
#68. For most people, the price for security is personal freedom. And without freedom, many people spend their lives working for money, rather than living out to their dreams
Robert Kiyosaki
#69. The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
Joan Didion
#70. Personal freedom comes from embodying intent, love, and gratitude... this is the mastery of life.
Miguel Ruiz
#71. The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#72. The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.
Phyllis Schlafly
#73. But I do believe that a woman's truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote.
Lucy Stone
#74. It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.
Tom Robbins
#75. Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.
Staci Backauskas
#76. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
Muriel Spark
#77. Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
Pope Benedict XVI
#78. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.
Wallace Stegner
#79. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.
James A. Michener
#80. America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.
Sylvia Earle
#81. The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.
Richard Allen Epstein
#82. We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.
Caspar Weinberger
#83. I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
Sara Sheridan
#84. Freedom is within oneself. But to get beyond the thoughts and desires requires power.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Freedom that is not fought for, that is not gained by personal sacrifice is freedom that will never last, because in the heart of the one set free, it will have little value. A treasure that costs nothing is a treasure that is easily neglected and lost.
Bryan Davis
#86. To be in community is to be in personal, interdependent relationship, and it comes with a price: our illusion of independence, our freedom from obligation. You can't have it both ways. If you want community, you must be willing to be obligated, dependent, tied, attached. You will
Charles Eisenstein
#87. It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are
Allanah Hunt
#88. Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#89. Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails.
Wilhelm Reich
#90. You do pay a price for your Financial Freedom, but it is far lesser than what you pay for a Lifetime Slavery.
Manoj Arora
#91. True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
Bryant H. McGill
#92. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.
Faye Wattleton
#93. For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
Alice Walker
#94. Freedom with responsibility is the only sound basis for personal happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#95. I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
Nelson Mandela
#96. I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
James Lovelock
#97. Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.
Angela Bushman
#98. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.
Pope John Paul II
#99. Probabally One Of The Greatest Keys Of Humanity Is Education. Because Education Leads To Personal Empowerment ... Empowerment Leads To Freedom ... Freedom Leads To Peace ...
Peace Always Leads To A Brighter Humanity!
Timothy Pina
#100. Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
Sloane Crosley
