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Quotes About Freedom

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.
~ Frederick Lenz
A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
~ Lajos Kossuth
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
~ Jesse Jackson
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.
~ Yiyun Li
There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.
~ Rachel Caine
What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
~ Terence McKenna
When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
~ Ann Brashares
Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.
~ Ayn Rand
We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.
~ Barbara Boxer
A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us
~ Bertrand Russell
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I am freedom and I will eat your heart
~ Catherynne M. Valente
On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
~ Charlie Brooker
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
~ David Mitchell
Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.
~ Mitch Daniels
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The point is less what we choose than that we have the power to make a choice.
~ Gloria Steinem
The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
~ William Faulkner
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.
~ John F. Kennedy
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
~ Sting