Quotes About Freedom

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.

Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes hiw own prison.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

Freedom is not won on the battlefields. The chance for freedom is won there. The final battle is won or lost in our hearts and minds.

In true love, you attain freedom.

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.