Quotes About Freedom

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?

There's always a down side with any freedom. It's not just homosexual freedom, but any sexual freedom comes at a price, and that is usually art.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom.

We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.