Category: Quotes About Freedom

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency. -Aldous Huxley

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right. -Peter Marshall

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth. -Bill Keller

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today. -Richard Trumka

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged. -Alice Walker

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. -Marcel Proust

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. -Leonard Peltier

To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. -Shel Silverstein

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack. -Sloane Crosley

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. -Alfred Adler

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. -David Herbert Lawrence

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. -Germaine Greer

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. -Amy Tan

You know, you don't retreat in the defense of freedom. You don't retreat in the defense of moral government and limited government. You don't retreat because people are going to defend bad things. -Russell Pearce

If it's total freedom, I guess the ultimate thing you can go into is total silence between the audience and performer, with the performer projecting something he doesn't even have to play. -Alice Cooper

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes. -Miuccia Prada

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy. -Dan Rather

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. -Bear Grylls

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 Burgess

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. -Rabindranath Tagore

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom. -Stokely Carmichael