Freedom Quotes

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear. (George Orwell)
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. View quote
Sigmund Freud
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. View quote
Bob Dylan
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. View quote
Livy
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. View quote
Thucydides
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. View quote
George Orwell
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. View quote
Graham Greene
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. View quote
George Orwell
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. (Vladimir Lenin)
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. View quote
Jim Morrison
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. View quote
Germaine Greer
I need this wild life, this freedom. View quote
Zane Grey
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. View quote
Moshe Dayan
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. View quote
Colette
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. (George Washington)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. View quote
James A. Garfield
People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. View quote
Malcolm X