Freedom Quotes · Page 301

“Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.”

— Terry Goodkind

“Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.”

— Kristine K. Stevens

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

— Thomas Paine

Never seek financial independence in independent cinema since independent cinema doesn't make money.

— Mitra Farahani

“Acceptance can be so freeing. Before you know it, you’ll move toward forgiveness, which leads to wholeness.”

— Arelis Calkins

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

— John Dryden

“Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.”

— Malcolm X

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how…

— James Bovard

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible…

— Anthony Kennedy

Press freedom has great virtues. It is not about irresponsible scandal-mongering, although that may be part of the picture. It is a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope…

— Rudolph Rummel

“Innocent until proven guilty” is a good rule in a court of law, which has the power to deprive a defendant of…

— Anonymous

“Following feeling, relying on liking or wanting, we are not free. The freedom to "do as we like" is not freedom of…

— Dharma Publishing

“I want to suggest to you that citizens of free societies, democracies, do not preserve their freedom by pussyfooting around their fellow-citizen's…

— Salman Rushdie

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.

— Frederick Forsyth

“Normally, she never paid calls, not on her own. But this was life after Leo - a series of tiny, halting steps…

— Tessa Dare

“...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want…

— Kesha

“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

My chance to break free is nothing but a moments away stands in the way of my path, is nothing but the…

— Anonymous

“No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because true freedom comes from being unknown.”

— Ruth Ozeki

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed

— Florence Welch

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

— Billy Graham

“Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference.”

— Terry Goodkind

It's one of the things I really admire about Sly - we were all allowed to use our creativity, to have freedom…

— Larry Graham

Freedom means you're free to do just whatever pleases you; if, of course that is to say, what you please is what…

— Piet Pieterszoon Hein

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

— Jack Kerouac

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.

— Joe Lonsdale

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

— Paul Allen Walker

Council house sales defined the new freedoms that transformed this country in the 1980s.

— Damian Green

I've just always been creative and my mom gave me the freedom to be an artist ever since I was young.

— Doechii

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

— Eminem

A slave is a free man if he is content with his lot; a free man is a slave if he seeks…

— Anonymous

Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

— Helen Foster Snow

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

— Christopher Dawson

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

— John Cotton

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy,…

— George Pelecanos