Freedom Quotes - page 6

The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom. (Georg Cantor)
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else. View quote
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. View quote
Frank Herbert
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. View quote
John Milton
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. View quote
Nelson Mandela
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. View quote
Karl Popper
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. View quote
Aldous Huxley
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 is own weight, this is a frightening prospect. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom: An occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. (John Ralston Saul)
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. View quote
Ronald Reagan
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. View quote
Nelly Sachs
I hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful. View quote
Frank Frazetta
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people. View quote
Brad Thor
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. View quote
John Bates Clark
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. View quote
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. (Benjamin Britten)
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. View quote
Rollo May
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves. View quote
Rollo May
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. View quote
John Adams
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. View quote
John Adams