Freedom Quotes · Page 391

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

— Sigmund Freud

“Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the…

— James Bryant Conant

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

— Robert Byrd

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

— Ayn Rand

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

— Bobby Sands

“Abiding in the space of the nature of mind, we not only are free, we are freedom.”

— Tenzin Wangyal

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

— David Gordon Green

If 'freedom' means, first of all, the responsibility of every individual for the rational determination of his own personal, professional and social…

— Wilhelm Reich

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace…

— Rudy Giuliani

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain…

— Thomas Jefferson

All of depiction is fiction, it's only a question of degree. When we think of images, such as the signing of the…

— Titus Kaphar

“Be not dishearten’d—Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible. —WALT WHITMAN, “Over the…

— Robert Goolrick

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the…

— George Soros

“A thoroughgoing paternalist who holds it cannot be dissuaded by being shown that he is making a mistake in logic. He is…

— Milton Friedman

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation…

— Aldous Huxley

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.

— Jessica Lange

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!

— Patrick Henry

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

— Timothy Keller

Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share. -Ned Dolan

— Call Of Duty

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

— Julie Delpy

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

— Mark Twain

“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”

— Henry David Thoreau

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

— Georges St-Pierre

“Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.”

— Beth Kempton

Either we accept ourselves as the last humans, or else we accept ourselves as the opposition. (Either automonotony or autonomy.)

— Hakim Bey

“The best things in life aren't free… they're given freely, but you have to work hard to keep them" - Shane KP…

— Shane K.P. O'Neill

“One is astute when he shows no weakness at all after attaining religion [of the Self and works towards the ultimate liberation].”

— Dada Bhagwan

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

— Akbar Ganji

I always wanted to make 'Freedom,' but I had to drop the idea due to financial crisis.

— Vivek Agnihotri

“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For”

— Frédéric Bastiat

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty…

— Benjamin Franklin

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is…

— Forest Whitaker

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge…

— Larry McDonald

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

— Robert Griffin III

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

— Michael Novak

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

— Lajos Kossuth

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

— Rand Paul