Freedom Quotes

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Freedom of expression without limits is like a car without brakes.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.

Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.

there is no freedom without justice.

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.