Liberty and Freedom: Quotes to Inspire Free Spirits - Page 7

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Image of Patrick Chappatte
We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
- Patrick Chappatte
Collection: Freedom
Image of Angela Davis
My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
- Angela Davis
Collection: Freedom
Image of Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Collection: Freedom
Image of Salman Rushdie
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
- Salman Rushdie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Henrik Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
- Henrik Ibsen
Collection: Freedom
Image of Michelle Obama
I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There's no legislative authority; you're not elected. And that's a wonderful gift of freedom.
- Michelle Obama
Collection: Freedom
Image of Andy Garcia
Freedom is not negotiable.
- Andy Garcia
Collection: Freedom
Image of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Collection: Freedom
Image of David O. McKay
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
- David O. McKay
Collection: Freedom
Image of Rollo May
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
- Rollo May
Collection: Freedom
Image of Julian Lincoln Simon
The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
- Julian Lincoln Simon
Collection: Freedom
Image of John Henrik Clarke
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
- John Henrik Clarke
Collection: Freedom
Image of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Collection: Freedom
Image of Aldous Huxley
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
- Aldous Huxley
Collection: Freedom
Image of Livy
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
- Livy
Collection: Freedom
Image of Margaret Mitchell
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
- Margaret Mitchell
Collection: Freedom
Image of Michael C. Burgess
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
- Michael C. Burgess
Collection: Freedom
Image of Joshua Wong
We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.
- Joshua Wong
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mandy Patinkin
Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
- Mandy Patinkin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Robert Downey, Jr.
I want to give myself the freedom not to have to be projecting my whole life ahead.
- Robert Downey, Jr.
Collection: Freedom
Image of Hazel Scott
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
- Hazel Scott
Collection: Freedom
Image of Zygmunt Bauman
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
- Zygmunt Bauman
Collection: Freedom
Image of Vladimir Lenin
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
- Vladimir Lenin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Helene Deutsch
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.
- Helene Deutsch
Collection: Freedom
Image of Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
- Walter Lippmann
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mitt Romney
We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Freedom
Image of Park Yeon-mi
I didn't know what freedom was. I didn't even know the word. I didn't know the concept. I never heard of that word, 'freedom.' To me, the happiest thing was having food.
- Park Yeon-mi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mike Crapo
We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.
- Mike Crapo
Collection: Freedom
Image of Frederic Bastiat
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
- Frederic Bastiat
Collection: Freedom
Image of Bodhidharma
A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
- Bodhidharma
Collection: Freedom
Image of Nawal El Saadawi
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
- Nawal El Saadawi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Peter Hitchens
Freedom of speech is freedom above all for those whose views you dislike most.
- Peter Hitchens
Collection: Freedom
Image of David Lynch
I like L.A. because of the light. The light makes me feel so good. It's really beautiful. And there's something about L.A. being so spread out that gives you a feeling of freedom. Light and freedom.
- David Lynch
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ralph Bellamy
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
- Ralph Bellamy
Collection: Freedom
Image of Emma Watson
I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
- Emma Watson
Collection: Freedom
Image of Haile Selassie
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
- Haile Selassie
Collection: Freedom
Image of Doc Rivers
You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
- Doc Rivers
Collection: Freedom
Image of Johnny Depp
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
- Johnny Depp
Collection: Freedom
Image of Mikhail Bakunin
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
- Mikhail Bakunin
Collection: Freedom
Image of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Collection: Freedom
Image of Robert Metcalfe
Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.
- Robert Metcalfe
Collection: Freedom
Image of Nancy Pelosi
The American dream is about freedom.
- Nancy Pelosi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Boris Johnson
But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
- Boris Johnson
Collection: Freedom
Image of Ronald Reagan
Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Freedom
Image of Carson McCullers
The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
- Carson McCullers
Collection: Freedom
Image of Marjane Satrapi
I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.
- Marjane Satrapi
Collection: Freedom
Image of Shel Silverstein
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
- Shel Silverstein
Collection: Freedom
Image of Albert Camus
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
- Albert Camus
Collection: Freedom
Image of John F. Kennedy
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Freedom