Freedom Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Humans
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
No free people in history very long maintained their political freedom after having once surrendered their industrial and commercial freedom. — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
“Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image