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Quotes About Freedom

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
~ Billy Graham
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.
~ Matt Drudge
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
The road to freedom is a beautiful system
~ Phil Jackson
With wild eyes that had seen freedom.
~ Susanna Kaysen
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
~ Benjamin Constant
The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is, and knowing that a thing is not.
~ Terryl L. Givens
John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
~ Chris Matthews
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Freedom is not having a big budget.
~ Claire Denis
Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
~ Claude Chabrol
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
~ Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
~ Daniel Dennett
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
~ Neil Gaiman, Stardust
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
~ James E. Rogers
The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.
~ John Linder
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
~ Os Guinness
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
~ Tom Robbins