Freedom Quotes · Page 228

“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.”

— Oswald Spengler

“People trying to force their agenda on my by deciding how I'm permitted to speak is offensive.”

— Steven Brust

Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Use that freedom.

— Michael Ironside

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.

— Amartya Sen

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

— Tariq Ramadan

Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.

— G. Campbell Morgan

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they seldom use

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Inside each of us there is a marvelous compass which greatly favors life, freedom and vitality.”

— Bryant McGill

Self-criticism is not "love," and it is certainly not indifferent. It's a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I…

— Danielle LaPorte

“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see…

— Anonymous

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values,…

— Gary Locke

“Florence had the Alberti fighting for freedom, but never had real Jacobins. It experienced the Viva Maria insurrections, but never really witnessed…

— Franco Cardini

“To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil…

— Kierkegaard

“Tell me something, Noah. Which is more important: freedom or happiness?' What was this, a game? But Nijinsky wasn't smiling. 'You can't…

— Michael Grant

“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom…

— Hermann Hesse

The sordid story of IRS corruption and political dirty tricks during the Obama years is widely known thanks to numerous documents and…

— Tom Fitton

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

— Ermanno Bencivenga

This taste of freedom is still bitter because left in Athens are my wife and my two children and because so many…

— Mikis Theodorakis

Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected.

— Tom Clancy

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.

— Tony Benn

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

— John C. Maxwell

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

— Lucy Alibar

I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.

— Harmony Korine

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of…

— Gerry Adams

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

— Bertrand Russell

If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on.

— Ilkin Santak

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

— Nadia Boulanger

People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.

— Agnes Chan

“Most of people do not value the blessing of freedom until they lose it.”

— Abdel Halim

I am ready for love. Why are you hiding from me. I'd quickly give my freedom. To be held in your captivity.

— India Arie

I just want to work and have the freedom to put my voice out there, and I want to interact with my…

— Tomi Lahren

Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.

— Stephen Hawking

Ideology today is unfreedom which you sincerely personally experience as freedom.

— Slavoj Žižek

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

— David Riesman

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot…

— Silvio Berlusconi

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

— Robert H. Jackson

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically…

— Vincent Bugliosi

You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone.

— Ilkin Santak

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

— Mikhail Bakunin