Quotes About Freedom

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.

Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Obedience is the road to freedom.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.