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Quotes About Freedom

A slave is but half a man.
~ Aristophanes
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.
~ Art Buchwald
You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
~ Arthur Baer
A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
~ Arthur Miller
What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?
~ Bartolomeo d'Alviano
If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.
~ Brigham Young
You know what they say: A woman needs a man about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
~ Candace Bushnell
Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.
~ Carl Sandburg
Today's youth seem finally to have understood that only by freeing woman from her exclusively sexual role can man free himself from his ordained role in the rat-race: that of the rat.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.
~ Malcolm Forbes
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
~ Malcolm X
Dance is the landscape of man's soul.
~ Martha Graham
In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!
~ Pietro Aretino
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
~ Oriana Fallaci
In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.
~ R. H. Barlow
To be listened to is... a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts.
~ Robert C. Murphy