Freedom Quotes · Page 278

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

— Rob Bell

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation…

— Anonymous

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

— Junius

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

— Nazanin Boniadi

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

— Ludwig von Mises

A free person is not an uncommitted person, but in a free person you will find a deep devotion, and a desire…

— Anonymous

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because…

— Yolanda King

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his…

— William Graham Sumner

Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate…

— Thomas Jefferson

There could not be a restoration of the gospel without freedom. God provided this country as the base of his operations in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms…

— James Madison

All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests.…

— Jeremy Hunt

“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to…

— Anonymous

When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls…

— Dana Loesch

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that…

— Saint Augustine

“When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.”

— Beth Kempton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

— Lord Acton

“Isn't it funny that in a society that values freedom above all things, things that are free are not valued?”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

— Roxane Gay

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

— Harry Browne

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

— Sheryl Crow

Insanity is contagious, and of this I can be sure: Sometimes you'll find your freedom when you stop searching for a cure.

— Jamie Timbre

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

— Josiah Strong

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his…

— Rajneesh

There's a loss of autonomy that comes from not being able to own the wealth you've earned.

— Monica Johnson

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser,…

— David Jeremiah

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, 'What's mine is mine and what's yours…

— Anonymous

If there's a partnership in doing a dangerous thing, there's a real sense of bonding. Plus, the feeling of freedom is sexy.

— Bridget Marquardt

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

— Alvin Lee

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

— P. J. O'Rourke

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its…

— Herbert Hoover

Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

— Martha Graham

Single and free but that proces of me being single it about me missing you.

— Kevin Aka Gecko

Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.

— Marc Riboud

“We have created our own fake world in order to satisfy our imagination through the illusion.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa