Quotes About Freedom

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

As unrefined and basic as an animal's emotional equipment may be, it is not insensitive to freedom. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

How much does free cost?

So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar¦ But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.

Freedom involves a knowledge of choices. This alone is reason enough to get an education.

We must escape this monotony, this slavery of our minds, We have not achieved complete freedom yet.

We will go to the sun of freedom or to the death; if we die, our cause will continue living.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know