Quotes About Freedom

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

They have called Operation Iraqi Freedom a war of choice that isn't part of the real war on terror. Someone should tell that to al Qaeda.

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down.

Resolve and thou art free.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

In my soul, I am free.

Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.

To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

Religion can be condensed in a single phrase: total freedom to be oneself.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.