Freedom Quotes · Page 343

“every human being is… equally unfree, that is, we… create out of freedom, a prison….”

— Ernest Becker

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

— Bill Gosper

Yoga takes us to an unconditioned freedom, because yoga sees even good habits as a form of conditioning or limitation.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

— William Pitt The Younger

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

— Antonin Scalia

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

— Thomas Paine

We trade away some, if not much, of our freedom for the feeling of safety that comes with sticking with what we…

— Philip K. Jason

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want…

— Abraham Lincoln

Traditionalists like me believe the USA has become strong because of its core values, the freedom, individual responsibility and institutions like traditional…

— Bill O'Reilly

From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of…

— Omar Bongo

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules,…

— Jane Hirshfield

“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every…

— Ted Hughes

“Paul D did not answer because she didn't expect or want him to, but he did know what she meant. Listening to…

— Toni Morrison

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing…

— Mark Kingwell

Freedom of expression is essential for feminists and dissidents in the Muslim world.

— Deeyah Khan

“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, It is yours. If it doesn't, It never was.”

— Anonymous

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

— Alexis Tsipras

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Liberation can only be attained through saiyam parinaam (a resultant state free of anger-pride-deceit-greed, attachment and abhorrence).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

— Robert Spencer

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

— Jalal Talabani

I believe that we need to purge abortion from our shores for the cause of life the same way that we purged…

— Mark Robinson

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

— Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

— Zygmunt Bauman

In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by…

— George Michael

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

— Rollo May

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

— William Shakespeare

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus…

— Vinoba Bhave

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

— Ayn Rand

When you reach 50 you like to have a certain freedom because it's really the time you can show you achieved something.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

— Gerry Adams

American liberty is premised on the accountability of free men and women for what they have done, not for what they may…

— Anonymous

I need freedom to be happy. I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

— Johnny Weissmuller

“Liberty and love These two I must have. For my love I’ll sacrifice My life. For liberty I’ll sacrifice My love.”

— Sandor Petofi

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true…

— Gautama Buddha

Being single isn't a facebook ,twitter , or instgram status . it's a form of FREEDOM !

— Kei Monae

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

— Andrew Cohen