Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a… — Mary McLeod Bethune
People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable. — Rajneesh
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may… — Thomas Jefferson
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in… — Will Durant
While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we… — James Monroe
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he… — Dorothy L. Sayers
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You… — Henepola Gunaratana
Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road… — Joni Mitchell
I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And… — Nancy Bird Walton
I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK… — Phil Jones
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire… — Jimmy Carter
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… — Thomas Sowell
Like Israel, New York City's history has been defined by immigrants who come in search of freedom and the opportunity to build a better life.… — Michael Bloomberg
If you have the freedom to fly, why not take the scenic route! — Claire Williams
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with… — Eric Berne
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with… — Henri Bergson
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open… — Vicente Fox
Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty… — Abraham Lincoln
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new… — Peggy Noonan
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us… — Antonio Damasio
Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self… — Eric Hoffer
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our… — Thomas Jefferson

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