Quotes About Freedom

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.