Quotes About Freedom

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

To get the inestimable good that freedom of the press assures one must know how to submit to the inevitable evil it gives rise to.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

Yes, freedom is good, but arguably, grammar is better.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can't drag people through.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

Inner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

It is necessary to grow accustomed to freedom before one may walk in it sure-footedly.