Freedom Quotes - page 4

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers. (Georg Büchner)
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. View quote
Cicero
The freedom of poetic license. View quote
Cicero
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization. View quote
Charles Lindbergh
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. View quote
Jacques Prévert
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. View quote
Robert Frost
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. View quote
Peace Pilgrim
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. View quote
Margaret Atwood
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. View quote
E. M. Forster
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. View quote
Emil Cioran
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. View quote
Emil Cioran
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. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. View quote
Dean Acheson
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from." (Marilyn vos Savant)
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. View quote
Vita Sackville-West
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way". View quote
Richard Bach
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. View quote
Edith Wharton