Freedom Quotes

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

George Will

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Flavor Flav

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Mario Monti

You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportunity that makes his followers feel like they aren't just ticking their days down but are part of something larger than themselves.

Eric Liu

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals.

Oscar Wilde

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

Serj Tankian

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.

Denis Diderot

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

Paulo Coelho

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Der Gedanke ist ein Vogel, der Raum braucht und in einem Käfig von Worten zwar seine Flügel ausbreiten, aber nicht fliegen kann.

Kahlil Gibran

If there's one observation that rings true in today's changing world, it is that freedom and peace go hand in hand.

Ronald Reagan

We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.

John Ashcroft