Freedom Quotes · Page 264

As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

— Bruce Herschensohn

The best things in life are free but these things are often neglected and replaced with material things.

— Neacygirl

“What keeps you trapped?...What keeps you from living the life you want? What keeps you from being free?”

— Robin Roe

If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for…

— Bob Beckel

“Too much freedom of the press is unhealthy for a democracy, I declared.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth.

— Robert Adams

“Freedom from the spectacles of illusion (wrong belief) and freedom from the realization of ‘I am the doer’; that is called the…

— Dada Bhagwan

“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from…

— Stephen P. Halbrook

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only…

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“If men were equal in America, all these former Poles and English and Czechs and blacks, then they were equal everywhere, and…

— Michael Shaara

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are…

— Jimmy Carter

I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who…

— Masha Gessen

The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom,…

— Tom Price

“A thoroughgoing paternalist who holds it cannot be dissuaded by being shown that he is making a mistake in logic. He is…

— Milton Friedman

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation…

— Aldous Huxley

“The face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a diabolical glow.”

— Rebecca Harlem

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

— John Adams

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

— Judith Martin

You can find the independence within yourself, when you take the time to follow the right people that offer you a golden…

— Frederica Ehimen

For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on…

— Evo Morales

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

— Elif Batuman

“Our fated untainted soul gives us free reign, only doth backward pull our clouded minds when we ourselves falsely protect from pain.”

— Truth Devour

“Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.”

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

A strong, resilient economy is quite literally fueled by American energy independence and dominance.

— Katie Britt

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom for every nation must be based in a organized manner.Otherwise it will called as democracy.

— Sumesh Nair

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

— Fisher Ames

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

— Rudolf Steiner

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

— Thomas Becket

“If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.”

— Kamal Ravikant

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

— Mustafa Akyol

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens…

— Charles de Gaulle

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

— George Washington

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

— Alveda King

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn