Quotes About Freedom

2. As with most of the Bill of Rights, the free speech/press guarantee applies equally to federal and state governments, which includes local governments as well as all branches of each government.

came to create a pure church and to conduct a holy experiment free of opposition, distraction, and error. They were not hypocrites who demanded freedom of religion then denied that same freedom to others. Freedom of

they speak whatever's on their mind they do whatever's in their pants the boys i mean are not refined they shake the mountains when they dance

With rebellion, awareness is born.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. To be fruitful, the two ideas must find their limits in each other.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Every insubordinate person, when he rises up against oppression, reaffirms thereby the solidarity of all men.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

The great citizens of a country are not those who bend the knee before authority but rather those who, against authority if need be, are adamant as to the honor and freedom of that country.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

The fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres.

For people who had been prohibited from learning to read and write as slaves, reading offered tangible proof that they were really free.

The former slaves preferred to focus on feeling the power of God's loves, in the tradition of the invisible institution of their parents and grandparents.