Quotes About Liberty

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter (Freheit ist immer die Freiheit der Andersdenkenden)

Os loucos são livres e vivem presos por isso.

For him freedom meant doing exactly what you wanted all the time. Was that freedom for everybody?

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.

it's amazing what passing the half-century mark does to free one to be eccentric.

Only obedience,' he said aloud to the room, as though to convince himself, 'is perfect freedom.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

True freedom comes from continuous self-development.

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.

With hope, a mind is always free.

Life's greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

La liberté de l'esprit est le seul bien, peut-être, qui soit plus précieux que la paix. C'est que la paix, sans elle, n'est que servitude.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Take me away from here and give me some reason for living. I have none left. I have freed myself. That may be. But what does it signify? This objectless liberty is a burden to me.