Freedom Quotes

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

John Charles Polanyi

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

John Linder

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Sean Parker

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Wayne Dyer

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

Ma Jian

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Thomas Huxley

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free -- to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Aldous Huxley

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Carre Otis

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Gary Ross

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

So free we seem, so fettered we are!

Robert Browning

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Thomas Jefferson

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Mahatma Gandhi

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users.

Mike Fitzpatrick