Top 999 Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

Human beings crave freedom at their core.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Everyone has his or her own opinion and I always welcome criticism. That's why we have freedom of expression and that's also what I stand for - but I won't stand for insults.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

You have to dance unencumbered. There's no other way to move. The idea of dance is freedom. It is not exclusiveness, it's inclusiveness.

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I feel a kind of permission and freedom in my work that I might not allow myself in my real life.

Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.

Get the shading right, the lighting right, and there are things you can do to make the CGI look more real. People end up going crazy and give themselves a little too much freedom in how they use CGI, and if you overuse it, it draws attention to itself.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.

Liberty is worth paying for.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

In spirituals, the talk of heaven and deliverance was code for a better life. 'Crossing the River Jordan' was code, of course, for escaping to freedom.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

In the U.S., free speech and the press are protected by the First Amendment. It has a clarity unmatched by modern legislators and declares that 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or the press.'

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.

It is the truth of grace and not of the law that brings you true freedom. The truth of the law only binds you. In fact, religious bondage is one of the most crippling bondages with which a person can be encumbered. Religious bondage keeps one in constant fear, guilt, and anxiety.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.