Famous Quotes
- 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.
- Emile M. Cioran on Freedom
- Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
- Henrik Ibsen on Freedom
- New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Freedom
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield on Freedom
- No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
- Vladimir Lenin on Freedom
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- Hannah Arendt on Freedom
- No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
- James Madison on Freedom
- No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
- Emile M. Cioran on Freedom
- No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
- Andre Breton on Freedom
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
- Dean Acheson on Freedom
- No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Freedom
- No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
- Thomas Huxley on Freedom
- No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
- Damien Hirst on Freedom
- No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
- Patti Smith on Freedom
- Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
- John Milton on Freedom
- None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
- Dan Stevens on Freedom
- None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
- Pearl S. Buck on Freedom
- Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.
- Demi Moore on Freedom
- Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski on Freedom
- Not to sound overly cheesy but I really appreciate the freedom we have in America - especially as a female.
- Katy Perry on Freedom
- Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Freedom
- Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
- Quentin Tarantino on Freedom
- Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
- Rudy Giuliani on Freedom
- Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.
- Chris Christie on Freedom
- Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
- James Otis on Freedom
- Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
- Stokely Carmichael on Freedom
- Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
- Bede Griffiths on Freedom
- Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
- Edith Wharton on Freedom
- Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
- Larry David on Freedom
- One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
- Howard Zinn on Freedom
- One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
- Dan Savage on Freedom
- One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
- Thom Yorke on Freedom
- One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.
- One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.
- Lyn Nofziger on Freedom
- One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
- Ferdinand Mount on Freedom
- Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela on Freedom
- Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom
- Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
- E. M. Forster on Freedom
- Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt on Freedom
- Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
- Tammy Baldwin on Freedom
- Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
- Jon Stewart on Freedom
- Our forefathers got it they got it, man. They took godly principles and they put them into action, and they developed our Constitution - the land of freedom where each man is accountable and responsible for his actions.
- Luke Scott on Freedom
- Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
- Sharron Angle on Freedom
- Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
- Vernon Howard on Freedom
- Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson on Freedom
- Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.
- Mitt Romney on Freedom
- Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
- Nelson Mandela on Freedom
- Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Freedom
- Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
- John Linder on Freedom
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