Freedom Quotes - page 5

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. (Mikhail Bakunin)
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Freedom rings where opinions clash. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves. View quote
Thomas Moore
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. View quote
George Orwell
Tyranny is always better organised than freedom. View quote
Charles Péguy
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Freedom is worth paying for. (Jules Verne)
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. View quote
Yasser Arafat
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. View quote
Golda Meir
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. View quote
Jim Morrison
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. View quote
William Wordsworth
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. View quote
Milton Friedman
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. View quote
Milton Friedman
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. (Milton Friedman)
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
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. View quote
John Stuart Mill
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir