Freedom Quotes

Your answer is the logical, coherent answer an absolutely normal person would give: It's a tie! A lunatic, however, would say that what I have around my neck is a ridiculous, useless bit of colored cloth tied in a very complicated way, which makes it harder to get air into your lungs and difficult to turn your neck. I have to be careful when I'm anywhere near a fan, or I could be strangled by this bit of cloth.If a lunatic were to ask me what this tie is for, I would have to say, absolutely nothing. It's not even purely decorative, since nowadays it's become a symbol of slavery, power, aloofness. The only really useful function a tie serves is the sense of relief when you get home and take it off; you feel as if you've freed yourself from something, though quite what you don't know.

Paulo Coelho

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

George Soros

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

Peter Singer

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Thomas Jefferson

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

W. Somerset Maugham

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.

Mike Huckabee

Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.

Delphine de Girardin

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Nelson Mandela

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Martin Luther King Jr.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edward W. Howe

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

Mark Van Doren

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Kemal Ataturk

The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.

William Havard

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Charles Kingsley

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

Bobby Sands

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Ramana Maharshi