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Quotes About Freedom

As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.
~ Thabo Mbeki
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
~ Roger Scruton
Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.
~ Jeff Koons
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom
~ Franz Boas
To be free you must afford freedom to your neighbor, regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin, and that sometimes, for some, is very difficult.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.
~ Al Murray
With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
~ Dan Lipinski
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
~ Molly Ivins
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
~ Philip Yancey
Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
~ Victoria Woodhull
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
Freedom is not something you are given, but something you have to take.
~ Unknown
In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.
~ C. E. M. Joad
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
~ Elia Kazan
It is wrong to think that belief in freedom always leads to victory; we must always be prepared for it to lead to defeat. If we choose freedom, then we must be prepared to perish along with it.
~ Karl Popper
Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.
~ Ben Burtt
Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
~ Don Hertzfeldt
The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom.
~ Pope John Paul II
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
~ William O. Douglas
I should not dare to call my soul my own.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
~ Cornelia Parker