Quotes About Freedom

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

I experience true freedom when I accept, understand, and move on from the conditioning of the past.

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom.

The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It's about freedom.

I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.