Quotes About Freedom

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Here's a summary for the time or attention challenged: Never surrender freedom for laws that can't affect criminals; they disobey laws for a living.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

There is no freedom without justice.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.

I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.