Freedom Quotes · Page 334

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

— Fred Rogers

As long as [our] independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.

— Anonymous

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

— Dennis Chavez

He who once became aware of the power of Solidarity and who breathed the air of freedom will not be crushed.

— Lech Walesa

The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'…

— Michael Leunig

Look at yourself in the mirror, you're the universe. You're apart of the entirety that makes up everything.

— Jeremy Limn

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

— Henrik Ibsen

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving…

— Milton Friedman

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech…

— Pat Buchanan

Democracy cannot be forced upon a society, neither is it a gift that can be held forever. It has to be struggled…

— Heinz Galinski

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . .…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the…

— Anonymous

I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing…

— Marianne Williamson

As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened…

— Anonymous

The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to…

— Guy Debord

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

— Condoleezza Rice

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

— Rollo May

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

— Henrik Ibsen

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

— Dick Cheney

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

— Alice Walker

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

— Elizabeth Olsen

The meaning of freedom is in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans want to live by the document's original meaning.

— Thomas Peterffy

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

— Demetri Martin

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp

To me there can be no liberation without socialism. And conversely, there can be no socialism without liberation for everybody.

— Clara Fraser

“It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.”

— Justin Sirois

Let us live in joy, never falling sick like those who hate us. Let us live in freedom, without hatred even among…

— Gautama Buddha

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be…

— Anton Chekhov

“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

— Sherman Alexie

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

— Albert Camus

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

“A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.”

— Rick Warren

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

— Alexander Hamilton

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

— John F. Kennedy

Just because youre not in a relationship, that doesn't mean you shouldn't be happy being single. Sometimes, independence is a good thing.

— Anonymous

“The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.”

— Immanuel Kant