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.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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.
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.
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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.
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
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.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
All good things are wild and free.
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
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.
With age comes the freedom to be your authentic self and let go of societal expectations.
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.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Sometimes the discomfort of change is necessary to break free from the shackles of mediocrity.
Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.
Resolve and thou art free.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.