Freedom Quotes · Page 250

I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one.

— Thomas Naylor

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to…

— Alan Lightman

When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

— Ted Cruz

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

— Edward Teller

When we work with our thinking, then to have great wealth is the same as to have nothing. That's the only freedom.

— Byron Katie

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

— Frans Timmermans

What's at stake is your freedom, niggas paying the price. When the judge drop the mallet, all he said was life.

— Rick Ross

“The only true, unchallenged, and un-legalized free-will we have is internal.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“I’ve never had a job I was afraid to lose, a bill I worried about paying or met a person hoping I…

— Carlos Wallace

“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To…

— Germaine Greer

Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from…

— William O. Douglas

“For shame, Miss Hunt. If your grandfather learned you had taken the liberty of inspecting the tools of one of his workers,…

— Shirl Henke

“Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“We need more than a leader on our road to freedom. We need a Savior—One who keeps on saving. Although we need…

— Beth Moore

“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W.…

— George W. Bush

“Freedom in society is gauged by our success in getting what we want and conditioned by status and power, by race, class…

— Gabor Maté

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

— Thomas Jefferson

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

— Adam Smith

“There were no golden trumpets to proclaim our freedom. There were no liberators in sight.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“Close your Koran. Think in freedom and look with open mind at Heaven and Earth. Forgive everyone his sins. Don't cause anyone…

— Omar Khayyám

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

— Sarah Fielding

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting…

— James A. Baldwin

“Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom.

— Gbenga Akinnagbe

“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.”

— Rian Nejar

As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

— Noam Chomsky

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

— Monica Seles

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

— Albert Camus

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

— Michael Badnarik

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is…

— Alan Paton

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

— Dana White

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

— Carl Sagan

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

— Lazare Carnot

“Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

— Allan Bloom

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of…

— Alexander Pope

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Never close your hands in the face of evil fate; get up and rebel against it”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I don't think anyone should have power over me, or have the right to tell me what to say or how to…

— Park Yeon-mi