Freedom Quotes · Page 393

We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

— Jane Smiley

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

— Sharon Salzberg

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom. And I've so loved my freedom.

— Helen Mirren

“Remember the day when our heads, immersed in freedom and love, like colorful balloons - upwards to the clouds, constant we floated.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

— Criss Jami

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

— Lysander Spooner

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

— Taslima Nasrin

American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races…

— Paul Craig Roberts

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What I don't want to do is restrict law-abiding citizens from their Second Amendment rights, which are focused on freedom. I point…

— Jim Jordan

“the hunter’s tools are deadly weapons, capable not only of feeding him and his family, but of defending his life, liberty, and…

— L. Neil Smith

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom… The subjection of individuals…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Decisions are free when each of us settles his path through life by negotiation, playing his cards according to his own best…

— Roger Scruton

As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality,…

— Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

— Anne Mallory

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking…

— Bill Cosby

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

— Michel Foucault

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can…

— Dorothy Thompson

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying…

— Nhat Hanh

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

— Herbert Hoover

Little by little I want to become more free and start going forward but I know that the first thing I have…

— Pepe

Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

— William J. Clinton

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit…

— Ezra Taft Benson

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

— George Bernard Shaw

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

— George Orwell

“State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.”

— Kaushik

“But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”

— Thomas Paine

If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, 'Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take…

— Sarah Palin

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

— Martin Luther

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

— John Adams

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

— William S. Burroughs

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.”

— Ashim Shanker

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

— Yasmine Hamdan

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my…

— Sting

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

— Barack Obama