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Quotes About Freedom

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.
~ Rajneesh
Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.
~ Dalai Lama
I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.
~ Rand Paul
Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.
~ Robert Grudin
the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
no people can be both ignorant and free.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My liberty depends on you being free, too.
~ Barack Obama
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
~ Robert Frost
The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
~ Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
We both have no home to go back to... so we can go anywhere at all.
~ Kazuya Minekura
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.
~ Unknown
Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.
~ Horst Koehler
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.
~ Gustav Heinemann
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.
~ Thomas Frank
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
~ Jesse Jackson
Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
~ Rand Paul
Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
~ Cormac McCarthy
As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
~ Louis Aragon
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
~ Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds