Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 13

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Image of John Dalberg-Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- John Dalberg-Acton
Collection: Freedom
Image of Corliss Lamont
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
- Corliss Lamont
Collection: Freedom
Image of Warren E. Burger
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
- Warren E. Burger
Collection: Freedom
Image of Stockwell Day
I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
- Stockwell Day
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ernest Renan
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
- Ernest Renan
Collection: Freedom
Image of Wendell Willkie
Free men are the strongest men.
- Wendell Willkie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ferdinand Mount
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
- Ferdinand Mount
Collection: Freedom
Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
Collection: Freedom
Image of John Ensign
Human beings crave freedom at their core.
- John Ensign
Collection: Freedom
Image of Glenn Beck
We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
- Glenn Beck
Collection: Freedom
Image of Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
- Herbert Spencer
Collection: Freedom
Image of Malcolm X
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mstislav Rostropovich
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
- Mstislav Rostropovich
Collection: Freedom
Image of James McGreevey
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
- James McGreevey
Collection: Freedom
Image of Harriet Tubman
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
- Harriet Tubman
Collection: Freedom
Image of John Locke
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
- John Locke
Collection: Freedom
Image of B. R. Ambedkar
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
- B. R. Ambedkar
Collection: Freedom
Image of Kurt Cobain
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
- Kurt Cobain
Collection: Freedom
Image of Jocko Willink
The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.
- Jocko Willink
Collection: Freedom
Image of George Carlin
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Tom Smothers
They ought to put an amendment to the First Amendment that says there shall also be freedom of hearing.
- Tom Smothers
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mortimer Adler
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
- Mortimer Adler
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ruby Dee
You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.
- Ruby Dee
Collection: Freedom
Image of Bria Vinaite
My earliest memory of freedom was when I was about 14 and I stopped caring what people thought about me! I was so free and in charge! That whole year I was exploring myself, and I was so 'free' that I got sent away to boarding school.
- Bria Vinaite
Collection: Freedom
Image of Cornel West
Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.
- Cornel West
Collection: Freedom
Image of Andrew Young
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
- Andrew Young
Collection: Freedom
Image of Pete Buttigieg
I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.
- Pete Buttigieg
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ivan Turgenev
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
- Ivan Turgenev
Collection: Freedom
Image of Roselyn Sanchez
Always be your husband's best friend, make him laugh and give him a little bit of freedom - you can't suffocate him.
- Roselyn Sanchez
Collection: Freedom
Image of Maurizio Cattelan
I would describe myself as a tallish, shy, middle-aged man who equally loves his work and his freedom. And a good liar!
- Maurizio Cattelan
Collection: Freedom
Image of John Ralston Saul
People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.
- John Ralston Saul
Collection: Freedom
Image of Nancy Pearcey
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
- Nancy Pearcey
Collection: Freedom
Image of Eva Hesse
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
- Eva Hesse
Collection: Freedom
Image of Salman Rushdie
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
- Salman Rushdie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Julian Assange
I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
- Julian Assange
Collection: Freedom
Image of Molly Ivins
Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
- Molly Ivins
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Richard Stallman
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.
- Richard Stallman
Collection: Freedom
Image of Rafael Nadal
I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Freedom
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Freedom
Image of Guy Finley
We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.
- Guy Finley
Collection: Freedom
Image of Erin O'Toole
Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have stood together in the long struggle for freedom for decades. We have a responsibility to the people of Hong Kong to support them as they struggle to maintain the freedom that was guaranteed to them by Beijing in 1984.
- Erin O'Toole
Collection: Freedom
Image of Eric Metaxas
I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.
- Eric Metaxas
Collection: Freedom
Image of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Collection: Freedom
Image of Anthony Lewis
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
- Anthony Lewis
Collection: Freedom
Image of Chris Patten
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
- Chris Patten
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mark Meadows
It's all about representing the forgotten men and women, to make sure that they have a voice and members of the Freedom Caucus take that very seriously.
- Mark Meadows
Collection: Freedom
Image of Condoleezza Rice
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: Freedom
Image of John Piper
You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.
- John Piper
Collection: Freedom