Quotes About Freedom

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Too much freedom inhibits choice. Constructive narrowness clarifies choice.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.