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Quotes About Freedom

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.
~ Bill Gates
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free
~ Baruch Spinoza
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
~ Arnold Toynbee
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~ Nelson Mandela
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment
~ Nelson Mandela
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist
~ Salman Rushdie
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
~ Frank Herbert
Free at last; free at last; thank God Almighty we are free at last.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
~ Unknown
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
~ Unknown
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
~ Unknown
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us
~ Thomas Jefferson
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
~ Unknown
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.
~ Jim Morrison
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
~ Denis Diderot
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
~ Virginia Woolf
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way
~ Viktor Frankl