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Quotes About Freedom

The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.
~ Tommy Wiseau
We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
~ Helen Keller
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
~ Rumi
Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.
~ Barack Obama
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom to all.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
~ Anita Brookner
Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.
~ Russell Means
Nobody will give you freedom. You have to take it.
~ Unknown
For me, 'Dog Days' symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.
~ Florence Welch
I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.
~ bell hooks
Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Now: heaven knows, anything goes.
~ Cole Porter
Are you still thinking, looking, living, as from an imaginary phenomenal centre? As long as you do that you can never recognise your freedom.
~ Wei Wu Wei
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
~ Irving Layton
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
~ Norman O. Brown
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.
~ Thomas Sowell
What you have to do is break all the rules.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.
~ Paulo Coelho