Freedom Quotes · Page 295

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

— Michael Badnarik

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

— Albert Camus

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

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

— Allan Bloom

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

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white…

— Roman Baldorioty de Castro

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…

— Richard Diebenkorn

“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that…

— Sam Harris

Ironically, it is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York…

— Michael Bloomberg

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent…

— Louis Sullivan

“[On the eve of the French Revolution:] It is impossible to imagine a more disorderly Assembly. They neither reason, examine, nor discuss.…

— Gouverneur Morris

“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the…

— Hannah Arendt

I tell you the truth: if I lived in a country where there was no day appointed for elections, I would become…

— Silvio Berlusconi

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

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“The one who has an unfailing desire to attain ultimate liberation (moksha) will in some way or other, find that path.”

— Dada Bhagwan

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

I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things.

— Alicia Keys

When you understand that your self-worth is not determined by your net-worth, then you'll have financial freedom

— Suze Orman

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

— Henry A. Kissinger

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

— Paulo Coelho

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

— Nelson Mandela

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

— Max De Pree

Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.”

— Bryant McGill

“The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.”

— Bryant McGill

Tolerance for difference and for robust debate is often more appropriate than restricting freedom.

— Suella Braverman

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.”

— Harriet Rubin

American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

— Joseph Brodsky

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

— Anonymous

To secure one's freedom the Christian must experience God's light which is God's truth.

— Watchman Nee

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back…

— Nelson Mandela

“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.”

— Grace W. Wroldson

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life…

— Jane Hirshfield

“It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.”

— Timothy Snyder