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Quotes About Freedom

We are pregnant with freedom.
~ Assata Shakur
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
~ Neil Gaiman
In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and equivocal.
~ R. D. Laing
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
~ Wayne LaPierre
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.
~ George Monbiot
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.
~ Eric Hoffer
Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
~ John Dryden
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
~ Neil Gaiman
There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The government continues to erode our freedom.
~ Unknown
Your relationship to food, no matter how conflicted, is the doorway to freedom.
~ Geneen Roth
With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk has not ended yet.
~ Nelson Mandela
Will is wish, and liberty is power.
~ Voltaire
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.
~ Michael J. Gelb
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.
~ Unknown
What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.
~ John Cale
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
~ Bryant H. McGill
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
~ Brent Scowcroft
German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.
~ Franz Grillparzer
You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
~ John Travolta
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
~ Unknown
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it.
~ Albert Camus