freedom
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is from within.
26 thoughts from Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
47 thoughts from George Orwell
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
47 other sayings from George Orwell
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
17 other quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
18 quotes from Pearl S. Buck
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
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.
6 other views from Charles Kingsley
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
5 sayings from Brigham Young
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
47 sayings from George Orwell
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
8 more wisdom & wit from Stokely Carmichael
The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.
10 thoughts from William Ralph Inge
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
10 other wisdom & wit from Emma Goldman
'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
13 wisdom & wit from Dag Hammarskjold
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
2 quotes from Stanley Kubrick
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville
I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
19 more quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
7 sayings from John Quincy Adams
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
45 more views from Aldous Huxley
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
14 more quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
16 views from Douglas Horton
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
6 quotes from Karl Popper
Freedom is not enough.
24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
20 quotes from Herbert Hoover
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
24 sayings from Lyndon B. Johnson
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
5 wisdom & wit from Charles Horton Cooley
In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
12 other quotes from Bernard Baruch
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
2 quotes from Anna Julia Cooper
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
12 other quotes from Bernard Baruch
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
9 views from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
2 quotes from Kwame Nkrumah
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
2 quotes from Samuel Adams
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
60 thoughts from H. L. Mencken
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.
4 quotes from Roald Dahl
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
3 more views from David O. McKay
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
2 sayings from Mary Renault
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
8 wisdom & wit from Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
8 thoughts from Walter Lippmann
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
4 thoughts from Arthur Henderson
To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something.
2 quotes from Shel Silverstein
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
9 quotes from Hannah Arendt
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
36 thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
4 more views from A. J. Liebling
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
24 more quotes from Adlai E. Stevenson
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
11 other quotes from Graham Greene
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
33 views from Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
33 other sayings from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
18 quotes from John Adams
Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
33 wisdom & wit from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
8 views from Frank Herbert
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
6 quotes from William O. Douglas
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
2 quotes from Michel Foucault
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
4 views from James Truslow Adams
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
16 wisdom & wit from Denis Diderot
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
8 quotes from Frank Herbert
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
74 views from Winston Churchill
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
14 quotes from Hedy Lamarr
Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
2 more quotes from Friedrich Engels
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
6 more sayings from Felix Frankfurter
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
29 sayings from Friedrich Schiller
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
25 more quotes from Will Durant
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
3 sayings from Abbie Hoffman
Art is the daughter of freedom.
29 other views from Friedrich Schiller
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
25 other sayings from Will Durant
Freedom can occur only through education.
29 more views from Friedrich Schiller
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
11 views from Aneurin Bevan
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
4 other wisdom & wit from Margaret Mitchell
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
25 thoughts from Will Durant
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
14 more views from Jim Morrison
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
4 other quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
14 more views from Jim Morrison
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
5 more wisdom & wit from Gianni Versace
None can love freedom heartily, but good men the rest love not freedom, but licence.
5 other thoughts from John Milton
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
36 other quotes from Lord Byron
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
2 views from Olof Palme
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.
41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
I need this wild life, this freedom.
5 views from Zane Grey
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
12 wisdom & wit from Simone de Beauvoir
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
26 other sayings from E. M. Forster
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
29 wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
30 quotes from Virginia Woolf
You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.
10 more wisdom & wit from Tertullian
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
6 other quotes from Edith Wharton
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
17 other views from Friedrich Durrenmatt
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
17 other sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
5 more thoughts from E. Stanley Jones
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
2 more thoughts from Karel Capek
Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
10 more sayings from Ramakrishna
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
73 other views from Victor Hugo
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
24 other quotes from James Russell Lowell
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
7 views from Nikos Kazantzakis
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
30 wisdom & wit from George Washington
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
6 wisdom & wit from Charles Lindbergh
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
29 more quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
47 wisdom & wit from Abraham Lincoln
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
31 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Paine
Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.
3 sayings from James Otis
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
3 more quotes from Harriet Ann Jacobs
Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
2 thoughts from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Freedom lies in being bold.
50 more views from Robert Frost
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
6 other wisdom & wit from William Morris
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
50 sayings from Robert Frost
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
17 views from Leo Buscaglia
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
27 views from James Madison
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
8 thoughts from Vernon Howard
The only certain freedom's in departure.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
16 quotes from Erich Fromm
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
50 more quotes from Robert Frost
Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
8 other quotes from Vernon Howard
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
4 more sayings from Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
4 quotes from Rosa Luxemburg
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.
4 views from Rosa Luxemburg
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
2 more quotes from Corliss Lamont
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
11 other quotes from Henrik Ibsen
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
11 sayings from Henrik Ibsen
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
11 thoughts from Henrik Ibsen
The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
11 quotes from Henrik Ibsen
We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
8 quotes from Vernon Howard
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
14 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
21 views from William Wordsworth
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
3 more quotes from Hans Christian Andersen
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
14 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
6 quotes from B. R. Ambedkar
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
4 views from Coretta Scott King
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
12 more sayings from Thornton Wilder
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
3 views from Edward R. Murrow
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
20 quotes from Herbert Spencer
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
14 views from Vladimir Lenin
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
4 other views from Charles Evans Hughes
While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.
14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
6 views from Rollo May
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
20 other wisdom & wit from Herbert Spencer
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
6 other quotes from Rollo May
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
18 views from Emile M. Cioran
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
4 other views from Dean Acheson
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
14 quotes from Edward Gibbon
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
7 other views from James Anthony Froude
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
26 views from Sigmund Freud
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
22 wisdom & wit from Soren Kierkegaard
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
46 more quotes from John F. Kennedy
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
35 more wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
33 wisdom & wit from Thomas Huxley
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
9 more sayings from Jiddu Krishnamurti
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
45 thoughts from Bertrand Russell
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
16 more thoughts from Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
16 sayings from Hubert H. Humphrey
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
5 other quotes from Moshe Dayan
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
45 more sayings from Bertrand Russell
If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
21 other quotes from Malcolm X
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
26 wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
33 more views from Thomas Huxley
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
21 more wisdom & wit from Malcolm X
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
22 more wisdom & wit from Soren Kierkegaard
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
10 sayings from Patrick Henry
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
11 other sayings from John Stuart Mill
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
21 views from Malcolm X
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
45 views from Bertrand Russell
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
46 views from John F. Kennedy
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
35 more views from Rabindranath Tagore
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
21 quotes from Malcolm X
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
7 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Moore
Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
14 thoughts from Golda Meir
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying.
6 other thoughts from Mikhail Bakunin
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
6 quotes from Mikhail Bakunin
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
21 quotes from Malcolm X