Famous Freedom Quotes
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti – freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Resolve and thou art free.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.
