Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 3

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Image of Dmitri Mendeleev
I want you to have this feeling too - it is my moral responsibility to help you achieve this inner freedom.
- Dmitri Mendeleev
Collection: Freedom
Image of Federico Fellini
I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
- Federico Fellini
Collection: Freedom
Image of Emily Weiss
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
- Emily Weiss
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ron Lewis
Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
- Ron Lewis
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mike Fitzpatrick
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
- Mike Fitzpatrick
Collection: Freedom
Image of Grayson Perry
I was once judging some prisoner art, and you wouldnt believe the number of eagles and tigers and symbols of freedom and wildness that came up. It was a really strong trope.
- Grayson Perry
Collection: Freedom
Image of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mitt Romney
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Freedom
Image of Desmond Tutu
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Desmond Tutu
Collection: Freedom
Image of James Frey
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
- James Frey
Collection: Freedom
Image of Jocko Willink
While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.
- Jocko Willink
Collection: Freedom
Image of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Collection: Freedom
Image of Jeff Sessions
The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.
- Jeff Sessions
Collection: Freedom
Image of Rahul Gandhi
Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship.
- Rahul Gandhi
Collection: Freedom
Image of D. H. Lawrence
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
- D. H. Lawrence
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ben Shapiro
The Obamacare contraception mandate was never about freedom. It was always about pitting secularism against religion, and using the power of government to sponsor secularism.
- Ben Shapiro
Collection: Freedom
Image of Paulo Freire
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.
- Paulo Freire
Collection: Freedom
Image of Emil Cioran
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
- Emil Cioran
Collection: Freedom
Image of Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Freedom
Image of Kenneth Branagh
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
- Kenneth Branagh
Collection: Freedom
Image of Thomas Babington Macaulay
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Collection: Freedom
Image of Michael Bloomberg
I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.
- Michael Bloomberg
Collection: Freedom
Image of Nelson Mandela
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Freedom
Image of Jim Morrison
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
- Jim Morrison
Collection: Freedom
Image of Jacob Zuma
You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.
- Jacob Zuma
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ernest Holmes
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
- Ernest Holmes
Collection: Freedom
Image of Dan Bilzerian
I've always stood for one thing, and that is having freedom, and part of that is the freedom to unapologetically be yourself.
- Dan Bilzerian
Collection: Freedom
Image of Martin Cooper
Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.
- Martin Cooper
Collection: Freedom
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Freedom
Image of Rabindranath Tagore
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Collection: Freedom
Image of Milton Friedman
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
- Milton Friedman
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mick Jagger
I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
- Mick Jagger
Collection: Freedom
Image of Robert Kennedy
The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.
- Robert Kennedy
Collection: Freedom
Image of W. Somerset Maugham
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Collection: Freedom
Image of George Orwell
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- George Orwell
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ava DuVernay
Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking. She was one of the leaders of the desegregation of Nashville, basically. She was a student at Fisk University who was one of the founding members of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
- Ava DuVernay
Collection: Freedom
Image of Alek Wek
At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.
- Alek Wek
Collection: Freedom
Image of Aldous Huxley
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Freedom
Image of John W. Gardner
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.
- John W. Gardner
Collection: Freedom
Image of Abraham Lincoln
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Collection: Freedom
Image of Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
- Hannah Arendt
Collection: Freedom
Image of James D. Watson
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- James D. Watson
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: Freedom
Image of Douglas Adams
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America.
- Douglas Adams
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mikhail Bakunin
Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Margaret Atwood
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if they have to give up some personal freedom.
- Margaret Atwood
Collection: Freedom
Image of Alan Dershowitz
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
- Alan Dershowitz
Collection: Freedom
Image of Elbert Hubbard
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
- Elbert Hubbard
Collection: Freedom
Image of Imre Kertesz
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
- Imre Kertesz
Collection: Freedom