Freedom Quotes

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point".

A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.

Milton Friedman

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.

Erich Fromm

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Francis Kennedy

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - Are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a have not type of self.

Eric Hoffe

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Kipling

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

All we have of freedom - - All we use or know - - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Rudyard Kipling

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us.

Andrew Schneide

None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Bob Marley

Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.

James X. Mullen

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Frank Herbert, Dune

I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Cicero

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

The freedom of poetic license.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John F. Kennedy

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

Ronald Reagan

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Lenin, "State and Revolution", 1919

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

Chester Bowles

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.

Sri Madhava

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

Mahatma Gandhi

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

Pesach Sede

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

Benjamin Franklin

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

Alan Simpson

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Bergen Evans

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Robert F. Bennett

Indignation boils my blood at the thought of the heritage we are throwing away; at the thought that, with few exceptions, the fight for freedom is left to the poor, forlorn and defenseless, and to the few radicals and revolutionaries who would make use of liberty to destroy, rather than to maintain, American institutions.

Arthur Garfield Hays

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Mikhail Bakunin