Freedom Quotes · Page 269

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

— Patrisse Cullors

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Clear rules provide huge amounts of freedom: freedom to be safe and freedom to work efficiently because things are in order.

— Katie Hopkins

“Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

— Patricia Sampson

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of…

— Maya Angelou

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

— Ernest Hemingway

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

— Dorothy Thompson

As a liberal, I would hesitate to propose a blanket ban on any style of dress because of the implications for individual…

— Richard Dawkins

You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the…

— William Allen White

“And who are its enemies? It always appears that they are not only those who attack it openly and consciously, but those…

— George Orwell

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we…

— John Stuart Mill

We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and…

— Robert Mugabe

“To The Veterans of the United States of America Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for…

— Sara Niles

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for…

— Paul Kurtz

I don't think you can call yourself a freedom-loving American and be a Democrat.

— Tom Emmer

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

— Thomas Carlyle

“[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.”

— John Rawls

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.

— Jonah Goldberg

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

— Henry Van Dyke

I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children…

— Philip DeFranco

Revenge only engenders violence, not clarity and true peace. I think liberation must come from within.

— Sandra Cisneros

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

— William Jennings Bryan

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

As government grows beyond its constitutional boundaries, it really does devour freedom.

— W. James Antle

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

— Fernando Pessoa

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

— Ira Glasser

“How can you be free, If you don't even know you're trap or lock inside?”

— Ann Marie Aguilar

We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

— William Sloane Coffin

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of…

— Bianca Jagger

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

— Jonathan Zittrain

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda.

— George W. Bush

The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

— George Washington

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

— Rei Kawakubo

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

— Sandra Bullock

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

— Sarah Palin

Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative…

— Taika Waititi

Every party faces ups and downs. After independence, parties like Jansangh and BJP had been finished.

— Mayawati

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then…

— Nelson Mandela