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Quotes About Freedom

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
~ Igor Stravinsky
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
~ Seth Lloyd
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.
~ Noam Chomsky
Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control.
~ Ernst Zundel
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
To become pure is not difficult. Make the choices that will lead you to freedom and liberation - not enslavement to the wills, actions and desires of others.
~ Frederick Lenz
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
~ A. J. Liebling
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.
~ Andrew Dost
There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
~ Michael Gambon
When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.
~ John Ridley
In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.
~ Harold Geneen
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
~ John Cale
To freemen, threats are impotent.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
~ Eric Hoffer
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
~ Alice Neel
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
~ Sting
The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Freedom for the working class!
~ Mother Jones
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
~ Albert Einstein
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until today we face a crisis of great dimensions.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
~ Bertrand Russell