Freedom Quotes · Page 232

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

— Anonymous

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

— Ilkin Santak

The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.

— Anonymous

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never…

— Learned Hand

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

Anyone I'm with has to give me freedom. I like to be with someone who has character and style and someone who…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

— Gerry Adams

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to…

— Harriet Tubman

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in…

— Thom Mayne

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid…

— Alex Kozinski

“The letter of the law should bend; and this bending should be with the winds of freedom rather than toward the lifelessness…

— Joshua Emmet

I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea…

— Bonnie McKee

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be…

— Leon Jouhaux

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which…

— Michael Ignatieff

“Britain’s industry was kept buoyant by the decline of Empire, for as countries gained their independence they sought arms to enhance their…

— Andrew Feinstein

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

— Ilkin Santak

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

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

— Nadia Boulanger

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

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Tomi Lahren

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

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

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

— G. Campbell Morgan

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

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Ermanno Bencivenga

I am proud to join the Freedom from Big Tech Caucus, which is aimed at squarely taking the fight to Big Tech…

— Madison Cawthorn

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.

— Ainsley Earhardt