Freedom Quotes

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

In a good meeting there is a momentum that comes from the spontaneous exchange of fresh ideas and produces extraordinary results. That momentum depends on the freedom permitted the participants.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

The founders wanted to make it hard for laws to be passed. They wanted to make it hard for there to be restrictions on the freedom of the people.

Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

The freedom we are looking for is the freedom to be ourselves, to express ourselves.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

I would not exchange my freedom from old superstition, if I were to be burned at the stake next month, for all the peace and quiet of orthodoxy, if I must take the orthodoxy with peace and quiet.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.

Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

A country can get more real joy out of just hollering for their freedom than they can if they get it.

Freedom for the working class!

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury; the time spent engaged in it is not time that could be better spent in more formal educational pursuits. Play is a necessity.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

Freedom is a new religion, the religion of our time.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray

Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Complete freedom debilitates art but reveals much about character.

Che Guevara's life is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom. We will always honor his memory.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.

The powers that be understand that sexual freedom or liberation with any kind of joy means they are losing control.

Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Custodial education does not have as its objective the education of youth but rather social control over them. It suppresses rather than stimulates their intellectual and physical energies.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.