Top 999 Freedom Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

Freedom is just freedom. It is a condition, not an agent of change. It does not develop or uplift those who win it. Freedom holds us accountable no matter the disadvantages we inherit from the past.

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

The individual must not be allowed to be overly free, but the country must be entirely free. When the country can exercise freedom, China will have become a mighty and prosperous nation.

When the nation can act freely, then China may be called strong. To make the nation free, we must each sacrifice his freedom.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

There's something frightening that comes with freedom. And there was something very frightening for a lot of slaves once they were free and were going through Reconstruction. It was like, what do you do now? There was nothing set up.

Going braless is one's freedom.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

Freedom without limits is just a word.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

It seems the feminists are all about female freedom of expression so long as the female is overweight or transgender. You can't pick and choose what type of women fit your agenda.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now.

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Free men are the strongest men.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

No man can given anybody his freedom.

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.