Freedom Quotes · Page 364

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

— Ralph Ellison

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.

— Peggy Guggenheim

I am the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world. They…

— Amanda Gorman

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Mtu aliyepoteza kazi na mke na watoto wake kuuwawa kwa mfano, watu wanapaswa kuwa makini na yeye, ana uwezo wa kufanya chochote.”

— Enock Maregesi

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself…

— Guy Finley

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

— Johann Georg Hamann

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

— Thomas Sowell

And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others…

— Jonathan Haidt

“You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's…

— Stefan Molyneux

“Believers in liberal freedom should worry not whether their regime can prevail in competition with authoritarian ones, but whether they can prevail…

— Michael Ignatieff

We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is…

— Huey Newton

It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension…

— Anonymous

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price…

— Ronald Reagan

If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that…

— Birgitta Jonsdottir

I have to trust people. There's no system of controls that can replace trust, so I need to reinforce that trust, and…

— Harry West

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. … There are no back doors, no free rides. There's…

— Oprah Winfrey

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin

“I took the liberty of oiling your chair, sir.” “Thank you, Thatcher,” Trey replied, a devilish grin gracing his lips. I blushed…

— Andrea Smith

“We are not free to do what we want with the Bible. It is sovereign. It must win. Always.”

— David R. Helm

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

— Bruce Lee

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

— Karren Brady

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

— Esther Perel

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to…

— Barry Goldwater

Financial independence is the ability to live from the income of your own personal resources.

— Jim Rohn

“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. (about her sister)”

— Charlotte Brontë

Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in…

— Erwin McManus

The love of individual freedom has stood in the way of the appreciation of social obligations.

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

I don't want to be preachy, but I find it so disturbing that parents today want kids to be a certain way…

— Vidya Balan

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

— Thomas Jefferson

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

— Anita Brookner

“There is no greater dilemma for those who love Peace and Freedom that winning the latter by abandoning the former.”

— Dario de Judicibus

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

— Pema Chodron

“Always, emotional freedom involves choosing where you put your attention.”

— Judith Orloff

Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.

— Stephen Jay Gould

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

— Peter Ustinov

The woman most in need of liberation is the woman in every man and the man in every woman.

— William Sloane Coffin

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

— Dan Savage

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a…

— John Dyer