Freedom Quotes · Page 359

my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

— Jack Kerouac

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

— Margaret Atwood

“Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.”

— Oliver Bowden

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

— Will Durant

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

— Alice Sebold

Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

“I tell it like it is, from real experience. I want to tell people that freedom is great, but that it can…

— Mian Mian

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other…

— Frank Chodorov

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is…

— Anonymous

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be…

— Joseph Stalin

There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the…

— Robert Charles Winthrop

Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“No strings, Justin. I want you on your feet, not your knees, and I'd rather see you presiding at the seance table…

— K.J. Charles

If you know anything about what a lot of the senior leaders at Amazon do in their free time, they spend a…

— Andy Jassy

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in…

— Bertrand Russell

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

— Hillary Clinton

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

— Albert Einstein

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

— Ehud Barak

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and…

— Rafael Correa

Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit…

— S.E. Cupp

Independence feels like a luxury, where the reality is that it's hard to survive financially for so many people out there.

— Keiko Agena

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others…

— James Russell Lowell

“It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most…

— David Harvey

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.

— Gloria Steinem

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

— D. H. Lawrence

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.

— Martin Buber

The mind will enchain yourself, others or both. Your heart will set you / them free

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

— Publilius Syrus

Some people strive to have freedom but once they have it, they turn out to the worst miserable people in the world.

— Simphiwe

“I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of belonging.”

— Jeanette Winterson

I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.

— Suheir Hammad

“Life's choices are wild and free, but sustaining and elevating, or destructive and debilitating. It's up to us to choose.”

— Mark O'Brien

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

— Frances Wright

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

— Edward Abbey