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Quotes About Freedom

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom
~ Iris Murdoch
We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.
~ Diana L. Eck
I pray for what I have always prayed for: the restoration of our constitution and absolute freedom for the people of Cuba. That dream is very much alive, that fight is very much alive.
~ Andy Garcia
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
~ Barack Obama
I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.
~ Brandon Boyd
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.
~ Carol Lynn Pearson
It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.
~ Colin Wilson
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting the fight for freedom in a modern civilization.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
~ Florence Ellinwood Allen
Freedom means the right to be stupid.
~ Penn Jillette
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery.
~ Jonathan Sacks
Obedience is the path to freedom.
~ James E. Faust
Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.
~ Gautama Buddha
There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.
~ Sam Keen
We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence.
~ Alan Cohen
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
~ Rosanne Cash
I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.
~ Rila Fukushima
I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.
~ Courteney Cox
Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being in a cage.
~ Craig Stone
But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.
~ David Levithan
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
~ Adyashanti
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
~ Ai Weiwei