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Quotes About Freedom

You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.
~ Todd Skinner
I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.
~ Travie McCoy
The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
~ Upton Sinclair
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
~ Virginia Woolf
Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
~ Voltaire
I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.
~ Werner Bischof
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
~ Will Durant
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
~ Ayn Rand, Anthem
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
Love is letting go of fear.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
~ Adam Schiff
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
~ Ahmed Ali
Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.
~ Ai Weiwei
I don't feel threatened. You can live your life being scared of losing someone and, at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you and that's it.
~ Ali Hewson
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
~ Bear Grylls
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
~ Brendan Gill
Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
~ Robin Sloan
If you can't protect life, then how can you protect liberty?
~ Ron Paul
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.
~ Shirin Ebadi
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.
~ Stephen Covey
The best day of my life was when I turned 25. That's the day my car insurance went down. Yeah, boy, I saved $1,200 that day.
~ Stephen Jackson
There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.
~ Susan Sontag