Freedom Quotes · Page 327

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.

— Remi Kanazi

“You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.”

— Nikki Rowe

“Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.

— Matthew Kelly

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

— George Washington

“Don’t surrender to the pain. Know that it’s only temporary and that perseverance is the key to freedom.”

— Jason D. Scott

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion…

— Tedd Tripp

The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who…

— Jamaica Kincaid

But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask…

— Harry Browne

“You need me like ice needs the mountain On which it breeds. Like print needs the page. You move in me like…

— Monica Ferrell

“The fewer responsibilities we have, the less free we are. Communism and democracy differ in this only by a matter of degree.…

— David Miller

In opposing we always talk about freedom in the Western world, Muslims always talk about justice. Very often we mean the same…

— Bernard Lewis

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to…

— Joni Mitchell

“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to…

— Tom Nichols

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Barriers only enjoy the power we WILL to it, the moment you decide to withdraw the power, you will surely become a…

— Daniel ANIKOR

This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

— Euripides

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

— Don DeLillo

“He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

— Epictetus

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

— Edward Abbey

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose…

— Miley Cyrus

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing…

— Rosanne Cash

“Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!”

— Harry Harrison

“When worries stop; that is called the beginning of the path of moksha [ultimate liberation] of the vitraag lords (the enlightened ones).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed...”

— Frédéric Bastiat

Freedom is the privilege of making one's own thoughts and choices the superior opinion in one's own life.

— Anonymous

“There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than…

— G.K. Chesterton

Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.

— Billy Graham

Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

— Paula McLain

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

— Abraham Lincoln

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on…

— F. Murray Abraham

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

— J. Norman Collie

“Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.”

— Salman Rushdie

“As Camus’ reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places—even Oran or Hades.”

— Robert Zaretsky