Quotes About Freedom

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

if I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom.

If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

There is a point where political correctness becomes an acid that erodes freedom.

Real freedom must include economic security.

We don't have the freedom of speech to talk about the weather. We have the first amendment so we can say some very controversial things.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.