Quotes about Freedom

“Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.”

“Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.”

“For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.”

“It is nothing new for the management of an international cricket team to wrestle with the amount of freedom afforded to players.”

“Freedom is not negotiable.”

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

“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 highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.”

“Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.”

“I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.”

“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”

“My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.”

“Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.”

“People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.”

“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”

“To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.”

“There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.”

“There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.”