Freedom Quotes · Page 218

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

— Harriet Tubman

“All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.”

— Bryant McGill

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

— John Calvin

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make…

— Elzhi

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free.”

— Bryant McGill

I became strong when you set me free, and I became even stronger when I let you go.

— Anonymous

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water…

— Gerry Schwartz

“I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man…

— William Sloane Coffin

“Saying gun control hurts our freedom is a false argument amounting to propaganda. Gun laws don't curtail freedom any more than speed…

— DaShanne Stokes

Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce…

— Lajos Kossuth

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a…

— Clarice Lispector

At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is…

— Maude Barlow

I feel like British designers are having a real moment; there's a lot of freedom to be different, and I think that…

— Emilia Wickstead

“Wake up, for the dawn is here and the moment is near. Call upon your guides, spirit and higher Self. The sun…

— Ulonda Faye

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

— Brian Eno

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

— Alan Keyes

“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

— Alveda King

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

— Mahatma Gandhi

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

— Robert Genn

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

— George Washington

History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens…

— Charles de Gaulle

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

— Mustafa Akyol

Freedom for every nation must be based in a organized manner.Otherwise it will called as democracy.

— Sumesh Nair

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

— Rudolf Steiner

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

— Fisher Ames

“If there's a definition of freedom, I think it's this: living life on your terms.”

— Kamal Ravikant

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

— Thomas Becket

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

— Anonymous

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.

— John Irving

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

— Malcolm X

Financial freedom is our birthright, rather than the "slave walk" of the Monday through Friday grind.

— Suze Orman

The preservation of freedom, is not the task of soldiers alone. The whole nation has to be strong.

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Allow yourself the freedom to step away from perfection because it is only then that you can find success.

— Chase Jarvis

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

— Thomas Jefferson

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything…

— David Deida