Quotes About Freedom

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

We are personally responsible for our own state of consciousness. As Soul unfolds toward total freedom, It understands total responsibility must be accepted for every thought and action.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!