Freedom Quotes · Page 337

“Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.”

— Mark Mathabane

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

— Herbert Hoover

We are able to enjoy our everyday freedoms because of the dedicated service and sacrifice of those who have answered the call…

— Young Kim

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety…

— Georges Bataille

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is…

— Marcus Aurelius

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

— Bertrand Russell

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

— Vladimir Putin

“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list,…

— Salman Rushdie

“When you conform to the monoculture's version of who you are and what the world is like, you lose your freedom along…

— F.S. Michaels

“... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture…

— Julian Carron

There is something kind of aggressively and inhumanly repetitive about this line that guns are essential to American liberties - hard one…

— Bret Stephens

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own…

— Isabel Paterson

Whatever you want to call it, socialism, liberalism, this is who they are. They corrupt everything. Folks, their targets are the institutions…

— Rush Limbaugh

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction…

— David Icke

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower…

— Nelson Mandela

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

— Denis Fonvizin

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

— Hugh Prather

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the…

— Plato

I have always thought that what matters most in life is freedom and health, not money.

— Chris Tarrant

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

— John Stossel

“Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others.”

— Bertrand Russell

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

“Free gasped as an unexpected realization swept over him. Humans talked incessantly because—like him—they were alone.”

— Steven L. Hawk

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”

— James Madison

There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I loved DDT for the freedom; I was able to tell the wackiest and wildest of stories but also test myself as…

— Kenny Omega

“If your freedom means immorality, the cross will cry over your freedom.”

— JOEL NYARANGI AKOYA

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.

— Adam Johnson

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

— John Howard

Those who seek liberation want to go beyond individualized perception. The essence of their being wants to dissolve back into the cosmos.

— Frederick Lenz

“Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?”

— Margarita Engle

“Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work”

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions

— Daniel Webster

I defected to South Korea in search of freedom of speech and movement. I had longed to put my feet on this…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

Even if neither of us got what we wanted, we found freedom in the third choices.

— David Levithan

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

— Martha Ostenso

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light…

— Samuel Richardson

What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.

— Hubert H. Humphrey